High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) (sometimes known as Anti-Scrape) was founded by William Morris and Philip Webb in 1877, to oppose what they saw as the insensitive renovation of ancient buildings then occurring in Victorian England. Morris was particularly concerned about the practice, which he described as "forgery", of attempting to restore buildings to an idealised state from the distant past, which often involved the removal of elements added in their later development and which Morris saw as adding to their interest as documents of the past. Instead, he proposed that ancient buildings should be protected, not restored, so that their entire history would be preserved as cultural heritage. A major debate had taken place over the "restoration" of Chester Cathedral which was more like rebuilding than restoration.

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