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- The Building Limes Forum holds events to promote the understanding of the use of lime in building. These include seminars, hands-on lime days and their annual three-day conference.
- This award commemorates the late Viscount Esher GBE, Hon FRIBA, who was Chairman of the SPAB from 1932-1960.
- There is no parallel in the architectural conservation world to the annual SPAB (Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings) Scholarship.
- Stonemason Sean Henderson, 27, carpenter and joiner Sam Matthams, 29, stonemason Luke O’Hanlon, 33, and bricklayer Matthew Wilson, 42, are the latest recruits to a unique educational scheme designed to nurture and develop the hands-on skills neede
- A band of volunteers and expert craftspeople will gather over two days to help repair Wolfeton Riding House and its surrounding buildings in Charminster, Dorchester.
- Wondering where to send a casework application, how to access our members' area, or what the opening hours are for our technical advice line? We've tried to answer these and other common queries here.
- Every year we offer the learning opportunity of a lifetime to a group of committed young people who work protect and repair old buildings.
- The 2019 John Betjeman Award for excellence in conservation at places of worship of all denominations and faiths in England and Wales drew an impressive 23 entries from around the country.
- We concluded our spring lecture series celebrating the work on John Ruskin with a discussion about his enduring influence on the city of Venice, and on the development of the conservation movement world-wide.
- First awarded in 1993, the Philip Webb Award sets architects in the early stages of their career a demanding but exciting dual conservation and design challenge.
- In honour of April Fools’ Day earlier this month, we’ve looked through the SPAB archive to see which architectural follies the Society has been involved with.
- For World Heritage Day we’re exploring the international history of our HQ in Spitalfields, London – a Georgian building in an area with a rich and complex past.
- 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.
- In early 2016 a group of Irish SPAB Scholars and Fellows joined together to form SPAB Ireland.
- The Norfolk Group was started in 2019 by former Scholar Gethin Harvey and a team of likeminded volunteers and was officially launched at the April 2019 working party at Feltwell. The Committee is as follows: Gethin Harvey: Chair
- Spend a day gaining hands-on experience running the watermill under the careful supervision of highly skilled, traditional millers.
- A group of volunteers and master craftspeople will gather over two days to repair an ancient churchyard wall at Feltwell, near Thetford.
- Federica Martinelli, a graduate of IUAV University in Venice has won this year's Gloria e Marco Award.