Camilla Finlay

Camilla graduated with Honours degree and diploma in Architecture in 2001 from the Mackintosh School of Architecture. After completing her Masters she joined the London offices of Terry Farrell & Partners and worked on a range of architectural and masterplanning projects including the redevelopment of Regents Place.

Camilla moved to Oxfordshire in 2006 and joined Acanthus Clews Architects. She became a Company Director in 2008. Since joining ACA her focus has been on the conservation, repair, development and management of historic buildings, particularly places of worship and English Heritage sites. She is an Accredited Architect in Building Conservation (AABC).

Camilla was appointed to the post of Cathedral Architect to Exeter Cathedral in 2012 and Surveyor to the Fabric of Worcester Cathedral in 2014. She is a member of the Cathedral Fabric Commission for England (CFCE). Significant architectural projects include Mucknell Abbey, a sustainable monastery for the Anglican OSB Community, that received the 2011 EASA President’s Award and the conversion of the Undercroft at Worcester Cathedral into a Centre of Learning that received the 2021 Architects Journal Retrofit Award.

Camilla’s family life and work are closely linked. She is married to David, a fellow Director at ACA and they have two children.