Talk:Cheltenham Masonic Hall

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 * “The proposition of Brother Baynes for erecting a new Lodge room was fully discussed, and it was determined that the Committee appointed at the Lodge held on the 21st August last, should procure plans and an estimate for erecting such room, which the members determined should be carried into effect as speedily as possible after such estimates were obtained and that the same should be erected by subscriptions to be raised by the Brethren and the following members agreed to take shares of £20 each accordingly, viz : Brother Newmarch five shares, Brother Hughes three shares, Brother Griffiths two shares, and Brothers Waterhouse, Moore, Burgoyne, Rawlinson, Straford, Jones, Huntington, Cossens, Cox, Baynes, Cave, Senior and Coley one share each.”


 * A Minute dated November 18, 1818 is as follows:-“The designs for erecting the new hall were produced, as also the estimate of the expenses attending the same, amounting to the sum of £2,200, both of which were approved. The Committee were directed to purchase the ground at the top of Portland Street at the price agreed on (£670) and it was resolved that the same should be conveyed to the W.M., S.W., and J.W. in trust for the subscribers. The expense of erecting the hall, it was resolved should be raised in shares of £25 each.”

*From L.D.H. Covkburn, G.C.

Worshipful Sir and Brother,

I duly received your fraternal letter, together with the plan and estimate of your intended Masonic structure. I had the honour of laying them before our M.W.G.M. who I assure you was deeply and most sincerely impressed with the Masonic zeal of the Brethren of Cheltenham and commanded me to express to you the pleasure it afforded to him by the communication. He also spoke highly of the expressions of homage and esteem to himself contained in every other part of your letter and desired me in his name to offer his best thanks for such marked professions of affectionate attachment from your Lodge. Agreeably with your stated wish, I forward the plan and estimate to you by the Cheltenham coach. I beg to request you will do me the honour to offer to your Lodge generally my best wishes for its prosperity and that you will favour me so far as to give my kind regards in particular to all the Brethren of Cheltenham to whom I have the happiness to be personally known.

I have the pleasure to be, etc.


 * It appears to be the Chaplain of Grand Lodge, L.D.H. Cockburne, L.L.D.

“November 12th 1823. The Masonic Hall, as we last week stated, though not quite completed, is so forward, that the Brethren of the Foundation Lodge held their first lodge there on Wednesday last, after which the Brethren partook of an excellent dinner at the Vittoria Hotel (now Messrs. Haines and Strange’s Garage). The wines were good, many appropriate toasts were drunk, and the evening was spent in great conviviality.”

“At three o’clock, p.m. the Knights assembled in the Chapter Room, in full costume, when the Grand Sub Prior of the Order, whose attendance was requested for the occasion, opened the Chapter in ancient form, and installed, in the most impressive manner, ‘The Commander,’ elected by the members, and sanctioned by the approval of the Grand Master. Nine members of the R.A. degree, were admitted to the noviciate degree, and afterwards installed as Knights of the Order, in a manner highly creditable to the Commander, and his assisted officers. The ceremonials and other important duties, restricted to the Order, having been attended to, the Grand Sub Prior addressed the meeting in language the most appropriate, instructing and impressively applicable, to the important proceedings of the day; after which the Chapter was closed with due solemnity, and according to ancient custom. The proceedings finally terminated with a banquet provided for the occasion in the Refectory, which was illuminated and decorated, emblematic of the degree. In the course of the evening, the health of His Majesty, as Grand Patron of Freemasonry, and that of his Royal Brother, the Duke of Sussex, as Grand Master of the Order, were drunk with every sentiment of loyalty, affection, gratitude and respect; union and fraternal love added its happy influence to the festivity and thus ended a day, which may be recorded as having past in strict conformity to the moral principals of ancient Freemasonry, and the Christian precepts of this exalted degree.”

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