News - Archive

Lying in our archives is a heavy and crumbling album. It contains more than a hundred drawings, mostly dated from the 1780s, nearly a century before the SPAB was founded. So who was he and why do we have his work?

Stonehenge may have an air of timelessness, in fact it has been a place of constant change, as our archive reveals.

The Festival of Britain was a national exhibition held throughout the UK in the summer of 1951. Writer and broadcaster Gillian Darley looked in our archive to explore our involvement.

In 1885 a SPAB member's donation allowed us to help save this ancient church in North Wales from ruin

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.

Our archive officer Vicky West explains how to use our new catalogue using the example of a historic case, Tintagel Old Post Office

The story of SPAB's valiant, though ultimately unsuccessful attempts to save an arch of the iconic bridge in 1921.

SPAB archive volunteer, Gillian Goodridge remembers a summertime visit to St Enodoc’s Church in Cornwall, beloved of poet and campaigner John Betjeman.

Writer Gillian Darley visits our archive to explore the history of this coastal Saxon church

In anticipation of a talk in March on their collaboration, we looked to our archives to explore John Piper’s involvement in the establishment of our Betjeman Award over 30 years ago, to honour his friend’s love of ancient churches.