IN-PERSON London Heritages. Section A

Will is CEO of Barts Heritage and is currently leading the repair and restoration of the Grade I-listed North Wing at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in the City of London. He is an architectural historian, writer, campaigner and heritage expert. He was a curator at Sir John Soane’s Museum until 2007 then director of SAVE Britain’s Heritage. Most recently he worked as Conservation Director at the Old Royal Naval College at Greenwich where he led the multi-award-winning Painted Hall conservation project. Will has lectured widely on 18th- and 19th-century art and architecture. He is a trustee of the Georgian Group, the Greenwich Foundation for the Old Royal Naval College and Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills. As Chair of the Sheerness Dockyard Preservation trust (2015 – 2024) he oversaw the nationally-acclaimed project to rescue and repair the fire-damaged Dockyard Church on the Isle of Sheppey which was recently awarded the RICS UK Project of the Year.