Description

BOSTON

TF3244SE MAIN RIDGE
716-1/7/94 (South side)
14/02/75 Freemasons' Hall

II

Masonic hall. 1860-3, internal C20 alterations. Gault brick
and ashlar, Welsh slate roof, plain red brick to sides and
rear. Egyptian Revival style.
EXTERIOR: front has steeply battered sides, with roll-moulded
ashlar quoins, rising to wide curved ashlar cornice carved
with the winged disc of the sun supported by asps. Set back
small parapet. 2 large central drum columns in ashlar, carved
at the base with leaves and on the shaft with hieroglyphics,
the capitals are of palmettes. On the entablature an
inscription in Egyptian hieroglyphics apparently reads 'In the
23rd year of the reign of Her Majesty the Royal Daughter
Victoria, Lady Most Gracious, this building was erected. May
it be prosperous'. Behind the open front is a steeply battered
doorway with stone surround, surmounted by winged sun and a
Greek inscription 'Know Myself'.
INTERIOR: the entrance hall, kitchen and banquet room on the
ground floor have been entirely remodelled C20, but the first
floor lodge room is decorated with masonic symbols including
the winged globe, the scarabeus, the lotus, the triangle of
light and the disc of the Sun. Built as a replica of the
Temple of Dandour in Nubia.

Listing NGR: TF3297444116

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17542974

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Recommended Books

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)