Plaque

Freemasons

Photograph by: London Remembers

Photograph by: London Remembers

Inscription

Corporation of the City of London
Near this site the Grand Lodge of English Freemasons first met in 1717.

Site: Freemasons, YMCA & Castle Baynard Ward Club (3 memorials)

EC4, St Paul's Churchyard

The two plaques face each other, on the inside walls of the arcade. The Castle Baynard tree is the one to the right in the photo.

2019: A London Inheritance has a post about the building that was on this site up until WW2, the offices, factory and warehouses of Hitchcock, Williams & Co.. The firm moved into number 72 sometime after 1853 and then expanded to take in many of the surrounding buildings. The buildings were destroyed by bombs on 29 December 1940.

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Freemasons

Subjects commemorated i

Grand Lodge of England

By 1717 the Masonic lodges were already clubs having no connection to stone-m...

This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Freemasons

Created by i

Corporation of the City of London

The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and...

This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Freemasons

Also at this site i

Castle Baynard Ward Club

Planted by the Chairman of the Castle Baynard Ward Club, Professor Anthony Tr...

YMCA

Williams was working as a buyer at Hitchcock, Rogers & Co., a large retai...

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