English Heritage has published its shortlist of projects from which will be chosen this year’s Angel Awards, its scheme that recognises the contribution made to the nation’s built heritage by volunteer groups and those training to learn the skills involved in protecting the buildings.

As usual, there is a lot of stone in the selected projects, as the pictures on the left illustrate.

The public gets to vote on its favourite and the project that gets most votes will receive the English Heritage Followers and Telegraph Readers Favourite Angel Award. Anyone can vote at bit.ly/AW-vote

Prehistoric rock carvings on the Yorkshire Moors, a vandalised urban church with hidden murals, one of the last working farrier blacksmith’s forges in the country, an 18th century water mill helping to pay for itself by contributing electricity to the national grid and a lost Georgian landscape… these are among the 16 projects that have been shortlisted for the Awards this year.

The winners will be announced at a star-studded, red carpet ceremony at the Palace Theatre in London on the evening of Monday 3 November hosted by impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber, who founded the awards with English Heritage in 2011. He says: “The English Heritage Angel Awards are a highlight of my year. Meeting all the wonderful people on the shortlist, hearing the stories of their rescue projects and seeing the extraordinary range of beautiful and fascinating historic places that they have saved is extremely moving and humbling.

“They are both enriching their immediate communities and saving national treasures, for which present and future generations will thank them.”

Next year will see the first Scottish Heritage Angel Awards running in parallel with the English Awards.

You can apply for a pair of tickets to the awards show at the Palace Theatre on 3 November by emailing your name and address to angels@english-heritage.org.uk.