2021 Scholar Amy Redman shares her new-found love for a traditional craft and some of its challenges today
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To mark 300 years since the death of the ‘incomparable’ sculptor and wood carver Grinling Gibbons, we looked in our archive to explore the relationship between the SPAB and the buildings where his work can be enjoyed today.
It's Remember a Charity week so we're spotlighting the work that has been made possible by gifts in wills in 2021. This year we began repairs to Kibworth Harcourt post mill, the last of its kind in Leicestershire. Thanks to a gift in a will we are able to bring this mill back into use.
New awards will join our exisiting ones in a celebration of old buildings and the people who champion them.
An update on the works which began this summer to repair our historic windmill in Leicestershire, returning it to working order for the first time since the 1930s.
Eloise Palin of the Spitalfields Trust shares some of the conservation challenges found in the building's surprising secrets
An exciting new series of practical courses offered by the SPAB in association with the National Trust
This 1920s postcard shows our home, Hunter’s Moon, a 16th-century timber-framed house built on the Adur estuary but now a mile from the sea.
Our famous Repair of Old Buildings Course, an intensive introduction to conservation, returns this autumn.
Our annual award for the person who best embodied the working party spirit – a warm mixture of generosity, dedication and enthusiasm. This year it was awarded to John Russell, a carpenter based in East Sussex.