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KINGSTON UPON HULL

TA0928NE DAGGER LANE 680-1/22/125 (East side) 12/11/73 No.7 Minerva Lodge of Freemasons No.250 (Formerly Listed as: DAGGER LANE No.7 Minerva Lodge)

GV II*

Swedenborgian chapel, then masonic lodge. 1698. Remodelled and converted as a masonic lodge, 1802, with mid and late C19 internal alterations. Restored 1958 and remodelled 1978. Brick, partly rendered, with ashlar dressings and slate roof. 2 storeys; 5x3 windows. Dagger Lane front has to left a single bay with coped parapet and round-arched glazing bar stair window with voussoirs, keystone carved with Masonic symbols, and impost band inscribed "Minerva Lodge 1802". Below, C20 door with overlight and brick flat arch. To right, a slightly projecting bay with a 24-pane and a 16 pane sash. Below, a reeded wooden doorcase with fielded 6-panel door and fanlight, flanked to right by a 16-pane sash with brick flat arch. To right again, a lower range with two C20 glazing bar sashes on each floor. C20 facing gable to Dagger Lane has three 16-pane sashes with a datestone below the central one. Below, a full-width porch with swept lead roof and 6-panel door with overlight flanked by two 16-pane sashes. Beyond, to left, a smaller 6-pane sash. All these windows have brick flat arches. INTERIOR has on the first floor the temple of 1802. Rectangular room with angled corners, with dentillated cornice, frieze with Latin inscription, and coved ceiling with central boss, painted with Masonic devices. On either side, 2 round-arched recesses containing niches with busts. Apsidal entrance end has a curved 6-panel corner door and a similar round-headed door, now blocked, in the opposite corner. In the centre, a recess flanked by Ionic quarter pilasters, with creased ceiling. In the recess, a tabernacle with 2 Ionic columns and segmental pediment, containing an inscribed board with brackets carrying Corinthian columns. Apsidal dais end has a moulded round arch carried on short Corinthian columns, with painted text and keystone. In the centre, a recess flanked by Ionic quarter pilasters, containing a curtained tabernacle with Corinthian columns and segmental pediment. On either side, fitted oak stalls. Side walls have single round-arched recesses containing niches and busts. Fittings, mainly mid C19, include carved chairs and reading desks, and 2 rows of fitted benches along either side. Adjoining assembly hall has a curved 6-panel door to the Temple, flanked by Doric columns painted with masonic emblems, and ball finials. At the opposite end, a moulded panelled double door to the former dining room. Side wall has C20 glazed doors. Fittings include elliptical-arched moulded boards with flanking Ionic columns and keystones, carrying names of Masters. Former dining room, now main hall, has stop-chamfered cross beam ceiling, and on the south side, 2 blocked windows of the former chapel. At one end, a central round-headed niche fronted by a sculpture of Minerva flanked by Science and Art, by WD Keyworth, 1854. Ground-floor entrance hall contains a plaster sculpture of Minerva, on a marble base, a bust of Queen Victoria, dated 1902, and a portrait medallion of Canon Kemp, 1885. (Ellerby, Austin & Hopley: Two Hundred Years of Freemasonry in Hull: Hull: 1987-; ).

Listing NGR: TA0978128556

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