IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week features the partners on ‘St Andrew’s Chapel wins Architects’ Journal Retrofit Award’.
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St Andrew’s Chapel wins Architects’ Journal Retrofit Award
The SPAB writes:
…. The award recognises our seven-year, conservation-led retrofit of the Grade II* listed 15th-century chapel….
Matthew Slocombe, SPAB Chief Executive, says, ‘We’re delighted that St Andrew’s Chapel has been recognised by the Architects’ Journal Retrofit Awards. The project shows that the skills used to care for our oldest buildings are not skills of the past. They are essential to their future.
Owlsworth Conservation writes on LinkedIn:
…. This is a fantastic recognition of the collaborative effort, specialist craftsmanship and careful conservation that brought this important historic building into a new chapter..
Jon Spalding, Managing Director at Owlsworth IJP Ltd also writes in LinkedIn:
I’m incredibly proud to share that St Andrews Chapel has won the Conservation & Historic category (up to £20m) at the Architects’ Journal Retrofit Awards 2026.
For everyone at Owlsworth Conservation, this is a particularly meaningful recognition of the care, craftsmanship and collaboration that went into such a sensitive historic project.
It was a privilege for us to act as main contractor alongside Malcolm Fryer, whose design brought a wonderfully inspiring vision to the project, with the expertise and guidance of SPAB helping to ensure the historic fabric was treated with the care it deserves.
Most importantly, congratulations to the whole team. Projects like this are only possible through the combined commitment, skill and passion of everyone involved.
A proud moment for Owlsworth Conservation, and a wonderful recognition of what can be achieved when conservation and thoughtful design come together.
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