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- Architecture students win SPAB's 'reuse of old buildings' conservation award
- A former chapel, a 20th century post office, a Victorian home, the site of a ginger-beer making business and the home of a relic – the finger of St Andrew. This gatehouse chapel, St Andrews in Sandling Kent, has had a long and winding history.
- In October we received our first application relating to a listed building to be demolished for HS2.
- Call us on 020 7456 0916 and have a chat with a member of our experienced team. Please note that we have one advisor available at a time.
- As the year draws to a close all of us at the SPAB would like to take this opportunity to say a huge thank you to our members, donors, grant givers and followers who have not wavered in their support of the SPAB through the lockdown months.
- Our Norfolk regional group volunteers report on a successful working party, despite coronovirus restrictions...
- Stonemason Tom Flemons received the 2020 Gwyn Watkins award for his outstanding personal contribution both to traditional building skills and support of the SPAB Fellowship.
- If you take a country walk along the public footpath south-west of the historic town of Coggeshall in Essex, you’ll find an elegant iron footbridge crossing the River Blackwater.
- The YCCC is running a free winter series of ‘Second Tuesday Talks’. These informal talks will be held via Zoom at 19:00 on the second Tuesday of each month, from December to February.
- Upcoming online events hosted by the Historic Towns & Villages Forum.
- St Doulagh's Church, Balgriffin has won the John Betjeman Award (Ireland category) for sensitive external stonework conservation.
- The SPAB Briefings offer a summary of recent work by the Society. Briefings offer cutting-edge information to help both owners and building professionals.
- In anticipation of a talk we're holding in March, Maggie Goodall, SPAB education and training manager, looked to our
- The Victorian Society offers talks, tours, visits and an online lecture series.
- Old buildings are sustainable but they can still frequently benefit from sensitive, well-informed energy efficiency measures.
- For those considering a career change into the heritage sector, it is worth taking into account the amount of time and money that you are likely to need to invest in yourself.
- The Grinling Gibbons Society is a newly-formed membership organisation and charity at the centre of planning the celebration of Grinling Gibbons’ tercentenary in 2021.
- Our founder William Morris’ designs arguably helped to shape our enduring taste for wallpapers. But how did British wallpaper develop, and how was it made?
- The SPAB has developed a body of knowledge based on extensive practical experience over many years. More recently, we have complemented this with some targeted on-site research, notably into the energy efficiency of old buildings.
- Writer and broadcaster Gillian Darley visits our archive to explore the story of this coastal Saxon church...
- Ongoing research by the SPAB is providing convincing evidence to support our long-held contention that the thermal performance (U-value) of old, solid walls is frequently better than assumed and use of ‘breathable’ (‘vapour-open’) insulation minim
- John Ruskin was born on this day in 1819. Dr Peter Burman, architectural historian, reflects on the importance of this founding member of the SPAB.
- CLA's Heritage Adviser will give an update on heritage ownership in Wales, and CADW's Head of Regeneration and Conservation will give an overview of who CADW are, what they do, and how they are involved with listed buildings and other heritag