Links

SPAB ran a project to help churches in selected areas to carry out maintenance. The scheme closed in April 2017 but its web site gives helpful advice. SPAB offers technical advice to owners of historic buildings and organises National Maintenance Week every November.

Diocese of London

Advice on caring for churches from the Church of England.

Grant-giving Trust concerned with the care of churches in the UK; offers maintenance grants to churches.

HE’s advice on Maintenance and Repair of Places of Worship.

“A Stitch in Time”: a brochure giving advice on maintenance jointly produced with SPAB (2002).

Advice from HES on the maintenance and repair of traditional buildings.

Advice from Cadw on the maintenance of historic buildings in Wales.

Historic England/IHBC guidance on the powers available to local authorities to order or carry out repairs to historic buildings

Stirling City Heritage Trust a pioneering scheme offering a routine maintenance service.

Information site on conservation materials and techniques.

EU-based charity working on issues facing religious buildings throughout Europe.

The Centre has a UNESCO Professor of Preventive Maintenance.

Monumentenwacht organisation for the Flanders area of Belgium (in English)

This is the website of the Federation of Provincial Monumentenwacht maintenance organisations. They run preventive maintenance schemes for historic buildings (In Dutch)