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  • Technical information survey

    The SPAB provides technical information through its advice line, research project and Knowledge Base.

  • SPAB Scholars: All roads lead to Rome

    Architect Scholar, Pam Dziwulska, writes about her time exploring conservation in Italy.

  • Support Mills

    We need your help to protect traditional mills and promote the traditional skills that care for them. 

  • Mission & Vision

    The SPAB Manifesto of 1877 continues to guide the Society's overall purpose and sets out a distinctive SPAB Approach to building conservation.

  • The Old House Show: hands-on conservation with Lizzy Hippisley-Cox

    ICON member and stained glass conservator, Lizzy Hippisley-Cox explains why she will be taking part in the SPAB’s Old House Show at the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich (7-8 Septembe

  • Board of Trustees

    Executive Board members are the trustees of the SPAB and directors of the Incorporated Association. They are responsible under charity law for governance of the SPAB, delegating management responsibility to the director and staff.

  • The Old Mill, Okehampton

  • Walkham Mill

  • Technical Advice Notes

    Our free-to-download publications include an expanding suite of Technical Advice Notes aimed at providing authoritative and practical references for those involved with caring for and repairing old buildings.  

  • Our People

    Chief Executive Matthew Slocombe, Chief Executive Chief Executive's Team Chi-Wei Clifford-Frith, Chief Executive’s Assistant & Officer to the Board

  • Show Time at Greenwich

    Nearly 3000 visitors came to the SPAB’s first ever Old House Show at the Old Royal Naval College (ORNC), Greenwich in September.

  • Current Vacancy: Head of Casework

    The SPAB seeks a new Head of Casework who will be a key member of its staff. The postholder will lead the Society's casework activities, as well as managing the work of other paid and voluntary caseworkers.

  • Could you be a SPAB Scholar or Fellow?

    The SPAB is recruiting for a country-wide conservation tour offering committed craftspeople (SPAB Fellows) and architects, engineers or building surveyors (SPAB Scholars) a hands-on experience in the r

  • John Betjeman Award now open

    Is there a faith building repair project in your community that you're proud of? It might be eligible for the SPAB’s John Betjeman Award.

  • Devon farmhouse officially recognised as 'at risk'

    We are heartened that a medieval farmhouse on the edge of Exmoor, the site of a SPAB Guerilla Working Party to secure the building for the winter, has been officially recognised as ‘at risk’ by Historic England this week.

  • Rescuing Auld Cottage, Norwell

    In October a small but dedicated team of SPAB staff and volunteers were deployed to Auld Cottage, Norwell, Nottinghamshire for the second Guerrilla Working Party.

  • Architecture graduates win design prizes for inventive schemes that re-imagine challenging historic spaces

    Three young architecture graduates have won the Society for the Protection of Ancient Building’s (SPAB) prestigious ‘new design in historic contexts’ award, the Philip Webb Award, for their separate schemes proving that with imagination and sensit

  • Courses and workshops

    We deliver hands-on workshops, masterclasses, seminars, lectures, short courses, online webinars and other activities to hundreds of people from across the UK and overseas each year.