Description

SS5147
853-1/6/106
16/07/87

ILFRACOMBE
NORTHFIELD ROAD
(East side)
Masonic Temple including front area railings

GV
II

Masonic Temple. Dated 1899, by HM Gardner of Ilfracombe.
MATERIALS: bath stone ashlar front; side walls rendered.
Asbestos-slated roof with red ridge-tiles.
PLAN: narrow-fronted oblong plan.
EXTERIOR: front designed after the style of a classical
temple, using columns with capitals of 4 different orders.
One storey. 3 round-arched openings with moulded archivolts
springing from plain-shafted columns. Central entrance with
6-panelled door and patterned fanlight flanked by paired
columns; Composite to left and Corinthian to right.
Either side, a round-arched window with small panes of frosted
glass and a margins of narrow red panes; transom at the
springing level. A single Ionic column to right and left.
The whole front flanked by full-height, paired Tuscan columns,
broken forward and supporting an entablature and triangular
pediment. In the centre of the entablature, a plaque inscribed
MASONIC TEMPLE in raised letters; in the tympanum, also in
relief, the Masonic emblem and date A.D. 1899.
Because of the fall in the ground, the left-hand pair of
columns has a high pedestal inset into which is a white marble
slab carved with the masonic emblem and carrying the
inscription in lead: LODGE CONCORD NO.1135. THIS STONE WAS
LAID BY THE WORSHIPFUL BRO. C.C.DAVIE P.M. 251 P.A.G.D. OF
CERS.ENG. D.P.G.M. FOR DEVONSHIRE MAY 10 1899. WOR BRO.
A.H.FISHER W.M. It is signed Huxtable Sculptor (JP Huxtable of
Ilfracombe).
There is only one opening in the side-walls, a doorway with
6-panelled door on the right-hand side. The front area railing
has spear-head uprights and standards, these alternating with
pairs of uprights sharing a looped top.
INTERIOR not inspected.
The Masonic Temple forms a group with Northfield House and
No.3 Northfield Road (qv).
(Ilfracombe Chronicle: Hussey AT: 13.8.1937: 8).

Listing NGR: SS5159947635

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26498607

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