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11/12/2017

There is still time to enter a project for SPAB’s 2018 Betjeman Award. The prestigious annual award reflects Sir John Betjeman’s love and appreciation of ecclesiastical architecture and is open to all faith buildings.

11/12/2017

Ken Hill, a retired journalist and King’s Lynn resident since 1975 writes about a ‘Lynn’ landmark.

11/12/2017

By Paul Walters

It has been a few months since we embarked on the incredible journey that is the William Morris Craft Fellowship and it has not disappointed!

10/12/2017

In February this year, a group of Irish Scholars, Fellows and Guardians banded together to found an Irish branch of the SPAB.

09/12/2017

SPAB Fellows, past and present, celebrated 30 years of the Fellowship programme at the Carpenters’ Company in London in November alongside supporters and donors.

09/12/2017

Architecture student wins national design competition for a scheme that breathes new life into the abandoned Italian hill town of Craco.

08/12/2017

By Lilian Tuohy Main

As we enter the third month of our conservation tour, a theme that continues to arise is the importance of observing before acting. A unifying trait of historic buildings is their numerous ‘unknowns’. It is this intangible mystery that often makes a place compelling.

08/12/2017

The SPAB and a number of leading heritage organisations, including the National Trust and the STBA, sent a letter to Greg Clark MP, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and the Industrial Strategy, highlighting their concerns about new energy efficiency policy.

07/12/2017

The Romping Donkey, Cheshire is one of a number of buildings at risk with which we have been involved over a period of several years.

07/12/2017

Proposals for the rebuilding of the Royal Clarence Hotel, Exeter after a devastating fire.