A Special Visit of Lewis Lodge to Sun Square & Compasses Lodge

Cathedral Builders

On Monday 6th June 2016 several Lewis Lodge members, namely W Bros Vic McQuire, John Stalker, John Cleghorn Snr, Syd Bushby and Bros David O’Connell and Scott Ferguson made a visit to Sun Square & Compasses Lodge 119 at Cleator Moor Civic Hall and Masonic Centre for a very special reason.

The Tilers Sword

TheTilers sword

In modern times the implement used by the Tiler is a sword of the ordinary form. This is incorrect. Formerly, and indeed up to a comparatively recent period, the Tiler’s sword was wavy in shape, and so made in allusion to the “flaming sword which was placed at the east of the garden of Eden