Email: belvoirangelssociety@outlook.com

Belvoir Angels Society; Whatton-in-the-Vale, 30th November 2024

Agenda – link

Belvoir Angels Society; Inaugural Meeting, 10th August 2024

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!

Advance Messages:

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

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?