What's On

Find out what's on at the SPAB. The SPAB offers a wide range of events, courses, lectures and seminars. Whether you're a building professional looking to widen or develop your practical skills, a SPAB member looking to take part in a Regional Group trip, or an old-building enthusiast searching for a SPAB open house event, a leisure learning opportunity or sociable evening talk, you'll find something for you in our 'What's On' listings.

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Visit
Join the Wales and Marches group for a walk around the remaining buildings of the Navigation Colliery, opened in 1911. The site has some of the finest brick buildings at a coal mine in South Wales. Expertly guided by engineer John Cranna.
Date:
08/11/2025 - 08/11/2025

Audience: SPAB Members and their guests
Location: Navigation Colliery
Price:

SPAB member £5

Non member £10

Online talk
Recorded online sessions specially designed to give you a way to easily meet your CPD requirements and improve your understanding of building conservation.
Date:
10/11/2025 - 31/12/2025
Course
Audience: Introductory CPD
REF:
CPD1 25

Location: Online
Price:

Standard £10

Four-for-three £30

Visit
Join the Dorset Group for an exclusive visit to Top ‘O’ Town House, a prominent Georgian landmark at the top of Dorchester High Street, now emerging from extensive restoration after years of use as council offices. Led by project architect Roger Hussey of Crickmay Stark Architects, the tour explores how the building’s municipal past shaped key conservation decisions. Discover how essential structural repairs, fire separation and sound insulation have been sensitively integrated into this Listed Building as it returns to domestic life.
Date:
13/11/2025 - 13/11/2025

Audience: SPAB Members and their guests
Location: Top ‘O’ Town House
Price:

Members £10

Course
Join this online course to learn how to tackle common problems in your home while maintaining its value and character. 
Date:
15/11/2025 - 15/11/2025
Course
Audience: General interest
REF:
HO1/25

Location: Virtual event: held online
Price:

£120

Visit
Join the Somerset Group for a scaffold tour at All Saints’, Langport. We’ll climb the secure internal scaffold in the chancel to view the late fifteenth-century carved timber ceiling up close and learn about planned conservation work.
Date:
21/11/2025 - 21/11/2025

Audience: SPAB Members and their guests
Location: All Saints Church
Price:

SPAB member £5
Non member £10

Course
Join us for the online version of our popular Repair of Old Buildings Course. Through a series of recorded lectures, virtual site visits and online Q&A sessions you’ll gain an in-depth understanding of the repair, maintenance and conservation of old buildings.
Date:
24/11/2025 - 28/11/2025
Course
Audience: Intermediate CPD, Advanced CPD
REF:
RC2/25

Location: Online
Price:

£815 per person (see below for group booking discounted prices)

Course
Join us to get practical experience of traditional flour milling in a small, friendly group. Traditional Miller Jon Cook will guide you through running the mill, covering everything - grain, gears, grading and more.
Date:
28/11/2025 - 28/11/2025
Course
Audience: General interest
REF:
MS2502

Location: 9 Mill Hill
Price:

£120 Standard

£90 Early bird offer - book by 21 October

Talk
Learn about how Peter James followed his dream of reconstructing a windmill from a mill base.
Date:
03/12/2025 - 03/12/2025

Audience: General interest
REF:
MS2504

Location: Online
Price:

SPAB member £6

Non-member £8

Course
Join carpenter and timber specialist, Dr Joseph Bispham, and SPAB Technical Officer, Mary Henn, at our Spitalfields headquarters to learn the essentials of sash window maintenance and repair followed by mulled wine (or apple juice) and mince pies in the courtyard.
Date:
06/12/2025 - 06/12/2025
Course
Audience: General interest, Introductory CPD
REF:
SW1 25

Location: The Society For The Protection Of Ancient Buildings
Price:

£120

Visit
Join the Notts and Derbys Group for a personal guided tour of Holme Pierrepont Hall and St Edmund’s Church with Robert Brackenbury, a descendant of the Pierrepont family.
Date:
09/12/2025 - 09/12/2025

Audience: SPAB Members and their guests
Location: Holme Pierrepoint Hall
Price:

SPAB member £15
Non member £20