Saturday & Sunday, 21st – 22nd
October 2017
We have spent a wonderful weekend down in West Sussex. Our
Churchyard Survey team had been invited to deliver a 2-day workshop to the enthusiastic
Lavant History Group, based near Chichester.
We met in St Nicholas Church and received a very friendly
welcome from everyone and great hospitality all weekend.
Even Storm Brian, which threatened to disrupt the outdoor practical
sessions, bypassed us.
It’s an interesting exercise to deliver such a workshop – it
made us look again at our working practices, our aims and objectives, and
consider how much we have learnt over the last two years.
It has given us extra impetus too – placing our knowledge of
our Upper Wharfedale churchyards against the differences we found in the Lavant
churchyards helps to give us a new perspective on our local case study.
The preparation and delivery of the workshop has also given
us the opportunity to formalise our documentation as we start to consider how
we are going to publish our study and share our knowledge and experience in
print.
We have always said that one of our main objectives is to
share our experiences and the lessons we have learnt from the project – and we
couldn’t have hoped for a better reception than this weekend. We wish Lavant History
Group every success with their churchyard project.
