SPAB's Information Sheets

The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) was founded by William Morris in 1877 to counteract the highly destructive 'restoration' of medieval buildings being practised by many Victorian architects. Today it is the largest, oldest and most technically expert national pressure group fighting to save old buildings from decay, demolition and damage.
SPAB advises. SPAB educates. SPAB campaigns.SPAB offers help when it's wanted and informed resistance when we are alarmed. SPAB encourages excellence in new design to enrich and complement the historic environment.
SPAB represents the practical and positive side of conservation. SPAB has a firm set of principles about how old buildings should be repaired and the practical knowledge to show how these can be put into effect.
SPAB is training the next generation to do the job with discernment and care and is helping many others, who own or live in old buildings, to understand them better.
SPAB's membership includes many of the leading conservation practitioners as well as home owners, living in houses spanning all historical periods, and those who simply care about old buildings.
SPAB's successes are visible across the country. Thousands of historic buildings survive which would have been lost, mutilated or badly repaired without SPAB's intervention.
Today, the Society has a statutory role as adviser to local planning authorities.  SPAB must be notified of listed building applications that involve total or partial demolition.  We are also informed by those religious bodies, that have an exemption from the secular system, of certain types of proposal for listed places of worship.  In addition, SPAB's Casework includes campaigning  to protect historic buildings at risk.
SPAB's Information Sheets are a set of leaflets dealing with various aspects of conservation (No. 06 is no longer available).