New annual English Heritage awards to celebrate the efforts of local people in saving their heritage, supported by Andrew Lloyd Webber, were announced on 11 June.
The English Heritage Angel Awards – “the Angels” – will be presented at a high profile event at the Palace Theatre in London’s West End in the autumn hosted by Andrew Lloyd Webber
There will be four annual awards for the best rescues or repairs of historic buildings or sites on the English Heritage Heritage at Risk Register. This is an eye-opening catalogue of all of England’s most important treasures threatened by neglect, decay or inappropriate change. It includes Grade I and Grade II* listed buildings (and Grade II in London), scheduled monuments, registered parks, gardens, landscapes and battlefields, conservation areas, protected wrecks and, from later this year, historic places of worship which are in poor or very bad condition.
Groups or individuals entering the competition must have rescued or be well under way with saving something that has been on the Heritage at Risk register since 2008 or meets the criteria for being on the Register.
A panel of judges, to be chaired by Andrew Lloyd Webber, will include Melvyn Bragg, Charles Moore of the Daily Telegraph and Simon Thurley, Chief Executive of English Heritage. From a short-list of 16 entries from around the country, they will choose four winners, one each for
- the best rescue or repair of a historic place of worship
- the best rescue of a historic industrial building or site
- the best craftsmanship employed on a heritage rescue, and
- the best rescue of any other entry on the Heritage at Risk register.
All short-listed applicants will be invited to meet Andrew Lloyd Webber and the other judges at the awards ceremony at the Palace Theatre in the autumn.
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