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

While sustainability is about much more than carbon impact reduction and matters that can be reduced to numbers, we'd like to introduce our findings which add to the conservation about the part that buildings will play in reducing our use of fossil fuels.

We look at these humble buildings, which offer refuge to travellers in a sometimes unforgiving landscape.

2021 Scholar Libby Watts introduces the history and production of plain glass windows

2021 Scholar Amy Redman shares her new-found love for a traditional craft and some of its challenges today

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.

Eloise Palin of the Spitalfields Trust shares some of the conservation challenges found in the building's surprising secrets

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

You’ll find Tretower Court within the upper reach of the Usk valley, just off the old Roman road to Wales (now the A40), surrounded by wooded hills