Promoting the Fraternity across the World
In 1908 The Connaught Rooms were named after the then Grand Master, the Duke of Connaught and became one of the most popular venues for social and corporate events . They were built upon the site of the Freemasons Tavern and in 1910 this building was replaced with the current structure. Next to the New … Read more
One of the more unusual collections within the Grand Lodge archives relates to the Freemasons’ Tontine which was one of the ways in which funds were raised to build the first Freemasons Hall in the 1770s. Tontines are now illegal in most countries including Britain (possibly because they encouraged the murder of beneficiaries!), in the … Read more
The first Freemasons’ Hall, designed by Thomas Sandby, had no street frontage but was built in the garden behind 61 Great Queen Street, a house dating from the 1650s, which was divided into two and had another small house behind it, which may have originally been a coach house. Grand Lodge retained parts of the … Read more
