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Belvoir Angels Society; Granby, 1pm Saturday 8th March 2025
Our next Belvoir Angels visit will be to Granby; starting at 1pm on Saturday 8th March 2025.
David Powell will be hosting and the visit will start with a tour of the Belvoir Angel headstones in the churchyard and then we will move inside. Granby has one of the largest groups of Belvoir Angel slate headstones and is well known for the headstone which is slowly being engulfed by an ash tree. Inside the Church is a remarkable collection of poppy head carvings on the ends of the pews.
Granby – the Ash Tree Belvoir Angel
Granby
Granby – poppy head carvings
Belvoir Angels Society; Whatton-in-the-Vale, 30th November 2024
Belvoir Angels Soc: Notes and Updates (1/12/24) – follow link here
St. John of Beverley, Whatton-in-the-Vale (30/11/24)
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our visit to St. John of Beverley in Whatton-in-the-Vale and many thanks to Janet and Joan for their kind hospitality and to Stephen Cresswell for leading the tour of the Whatton Belvoir Angels – a great afternoon!
We thoroughly enjoyed exploring the churchyard which has 10 Belvoir Angel headstones (including a distinctive row of 5 headstones relating to the Carpendale family) followed by a tour and talk inside Church, which was fascinating:
The one legged effigy of Sir Hugh Newmarch who died on his way back from the Crusades, c.1400. The Church school was sited in this corner of the church and it is said that the schoolmaster used Sir Hugh’s legs to wedge and break sticks for the fire until, eventually, one of his lower legs broke away. The tomb is also covered in graffiti made by the schoolchildren.
The tomb of Thomas Cranmer, the father of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer.
Tales of the musicians balcony (originally beneath the west window) and how the musicians defected to the Chapel when they were replaced by a harmonium and the balcony removed. A wooden flute from this period was on display.
The remnants of the mediaeval village cross.
The beautiful William Morris stained glass window made from designs by Burne-Jones.
Belvoir Angels Facebook Group: Stephen Cresswell introduced the Belvoir Angels Facebook page which has been running since 2018; it is searchable for 1,000s of Belvoir Angel photographs as well as information and updates from across the Vale – the group is informal and offers a friendly informal place to share ideas, photos and information. The group has just over 250 members from a wide range of places but the largest proportion seem to be from the Melton area, most are women, most are aged between 54 and 65 and the majority of posts appear on a Friday!
Belvoir Angels Soc: Notes and Updates (1/12/24) – follow link here
St. John of Beverley, Whatton-in-the-Vale (30/11/24)
St. John of Beverley, Whatton-in-the-Vale (30/11/24)
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We are very grateful to everyone who came along to our first meeting of the Belvoir Angels Society – thank you!
(click on link, or button, above) We have written up some notes from the discussions and a few actions that we hope to be taking forward; please get in touch with us if you have any suggestions or if you would like to help in any way!
St. Mary’s Nether Broughton – Eng Heritage, Alan Murray-Rust 2015
We are very excited to share the details for the inaugural Belvoir Angels Society meeting on Saturday August 10th 2024 which will be held in Nether Broughton.
(The Agenda will be available at the meeting which follows the Churchyard Tour)
We feel that it would be nice to move events around the Vale of Belvoir villages; each time we hope to start with a short tour of the Belvoir Angel headstones in the village and then follow up with the event itself.
We hope to include opportunities to ask questions and share information as well as refreshments and informal chats, too.
Please share the poster with friends and neighbours and please, also, consider putting up a poster in your own village, too – all welcome! We really hope that you will be able to join us and we very much look forward to starting this wonderful project with you all!
Best wishes,
David, Ann, Jane and Jane
Nether Broughton – map Church & Village Hall
Belvoir Angel (Bob Naismith Domesday Book 1999)
Would you like to know more?
Would you like to get involved?
Are you interested in joining a Belvoir Angels Society?
During a lively discussion event on Sunday 19th May 2024 (with cake!) it was decided that we should pursue the idea of establishing a Belvoir Angels Society:
What have we learned from the past? What can we do in the present? What could we do in the future?
We are in the very early stages and everything will evolve and change as we go along. At this stage, please let us know if you would like us to keep in touch with you. You can contact us at belvoirangelssociety@outlook.com or via the Belvoir Angels FB group. There’s no pressure—just a shared interest & curious minds!!
What’s Next?
The small group who organised the event on May 19th will be meeting soon to work through the formalities of setting up the Society and then we will organise another gathering to meet everyone who is interested, to set our aims, to discuss possible projects and events and even to begin to set our first projects in motion.
Everyone approaches the Belvoir Angels from a slightly different perspective and that is what is so beguiling about them. We hope that a Belvoir Angels Society can be a home for everyone, whatever their interests – where we can share information and ideas, pool resources and bring the Belvoir Angels to the attention of those who can help us to preserve and conserve them.
Some ideas include:
A Belvoir Angels Trail
Researching the stories behind individuals featured on the headstones
Analysis projects: dates, locations, styles
Studying the epigraphs; individual and repeated
Involving modern stonemasons to gain an insight into the techniques used
Looking into the social and cultural context of the period covered by the Belvoir Angel headstones
Campaigning to ensure that the headstones are all Grade II listed (at present, some are and some aren’t)
Involving Diocesan and archaeological experts to explore ways to preserve and conserve the headstones
Many more!!
can we identify the original stonemasons?
are there any connections to similar designs in America?
