Freemasonry Open Day – 12/09/15

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A unique opportunity to glimpse inside one of Portsmouth’s historic buildings Visitors have an opportunity to tour the Lodge Rooms Talk to…

Masonic Hall Open Days

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National Heritage Weekend Throughout the country, the National Heritage Weekend is being held over the second weekend in September. The purpose of the…

Royal Arch – Beginnings in Cornwall

The Duke of Wharton

For speculative Freemasons, times have always been a-changin’, and the erection of the Premier Grand Lodge by ‘Four Old Lodges’ in 1717 was itself a novelty. When, in 1722 the Grand Master, the Duke of Wharton, laid down the procedure for constituting a new Lodge, this was almost revolutionary.