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- A list of suppliers across the UK providing services and products that may be of use to millwrights and those involved in repairing mills.
- Philip Webb was born on 12 January 1831. He was an architect, designer, conservationist and mentor and is often referred to as the Father of Arts & Crafts architecture.
- Small is beautiful, says SPAB member and volunteer Allan Ockenden, as he makes a case for a modest ecclesiastical builing.
- Every year, the SPAB Scholarship gives young architects, surveyors and engineers an opportunity to specialise in conservation work.
- Information and details about training and events of interest for ironworkers and heritage practitioners.
- Community run centre specialising in Timber Framing/Repairs, Wattle and Daub and Lime short courses for professionals and home-owners.
- Before the mass production of inexpensive portable cameras, artists' sketches, prints and paintings were often the only contemporary record of what are now lost or overly-restored historic buildings – but to what degree can we trust the accuracy o
- Members of the SPAB living and working in Scotland decided to form their own semi-autonomous group in 1995. Scotland has its own building traditions, architectural language and property laws, all of which are best dealt with locally.
- National Mills Weekend May 2020: ‘Millwrighting - Past and Present’ What? A nationwide celebration of Britain’s millwrighting history When? Saturday and Sunday 9-10 May 2020
- The Sylva Wood School was established to plug significant gaps which exist in formal wood education.
- SPAB member Janice Gooch is fascinated by a former hunting lodge, and makes a case for the identity of its unknown architect.
- At 5pm on February 14th 1895 - while Oscar Wilde was busy preparing for the premiere of ‘The Importance of Being Earnest' at the St James's Theatre - Philip Webb, William Morris, Emery Walker and G. Rutter Fletcher met at no.
- As our new Scholars prepare for their year of conservation discoveries, we look to valued past SPAB Scholars.
- SPAB Scotland often works with other heritage organisations. Here is a list of some of the key conservation bodies working in Scotland:
- SPAB Fenland & Wash regional group volunteer Clive Baker makes the case for an imaginative example of re-use. Once a redundant Georgian church, St. Paul’s, Portland Square Bristol is now a circus school.
- The SPAB has been active in Wales from its very early days and the archives contain intriguing documents from the last century and even earlier, not only reports on the condition of many historic buildings but also accounts and drawings of repair
- We began our spring lecture series celebrating the work and influence of John Ruskin in his bicentenary, with a talk by Professor Peter Burman exploring Ruskin and craftsmanship.
- Find out about the SPAB's projects and events. Our reports are available to download as a PDF.
- In our series of talks celebrating John Ruskin’s bicentenary, Meriel O’Dowd, SPAB Scholar and architect with the Churches Conservation Trust (CCT), explained how Ruskin helped to save a church.
- 2019 marks the SPAB’s 142nd anniversary. The Society came into being as a result of the publication of a letter from William Morris in the Athenaeum on 10 March 1877 and it held its first meeting on 22 March 1877.