Henry Sanders is an architect and the founder of Hestia Architects Ltd. He has considerable experience in the conservation of listed and other historic buildings. Since 2007, he has successfully delivered a broad range of conservation projects for clients including Historic Royal Palaces, Landmark Trust, English Heritage, the Parliamentary Estate, as well as for private clients and parish churches.

Henry  completed a post-graduate diploma in Architectural Conservation at the Edinburgh College of Art, before going on to work with Caroe Architecture in Cambridge. In 2012 Henry was awarded the nine-month SPAB Lethaby Scholarship; through this prestigious training course he worked with and learnt from some of the nation’s foremost craftsmen and professionals on some of the country’s finest buildings. He has a broad understanding of the full range of building crafts and conservation techniques and of the challenges that face our built heritage. He is actively involved with the annual SPAB working parties as an expert consultant in conservation, including repairing historic buildings and operating small scale lime kilns.

Following the scholarship, Henry worked briefly for Hugh Harrison Conservation at King’s College Chapel, before being employed as a Conservation Architect at Donald Insall Associates in London. He moved to Oxford in 2016 joining Acanthus Clews Architects working across the south of England as a Conservation Architect.

He has considerable experience in conservation and in undertaking  large, complex projects, as well as smaller repair projects to more modest buildings and monuments. He is both a SPAB Scholar and an Architect Accredited in Building Conservation (AABC). Henry is the Inspecting Architect for over a dozen parish churches across the Dioceses of Oxford, Leicester, St Albans and Peterborough undertaking quinquennial inspections, repairs to the fabric, reordering and adding sympathetic but innovative extensions. He is experienced in working with sensitive historic fabric, such as at the Northampton Queen Eleanor Cross, as well as at managing large multidisciplinary design teams on strategic conservation projects such as at Marble Hill House.