Kidsgrove Masonic Hall - Kidsgrove, Staffordshire, UK
N 53° 05.183 W 002° 14.290
30U E 551024 N 5882151
The Masonic Hall is located behind Victoria Hall on Liverpool Road in Kidsgrove.
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Location: West Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 02/12/2017
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St. Thomas’s Lodge 1914 is based at the Masonic Hall, Liverpool Road, Kidsgrove.
The Masonic Hall was completed and first occupied in 1923 for the main purpose of Freemasonry. The Dedication and occupation of the hall happened at the Installation meeting on Wednesday 24th October at 3pm.
HISTORY
St. Thomas is the Patron Saint of builders, geometricians and stonemasons, but the belief is that the Lodge was named after St. Thomas’s Church in Kidsgrove.
St. Thomas’s Lodge was formed from St. Martin’s Lodge No. 98, the oldest Lodge in the Province, after a successful petition was presented in December 1880 to form a new Lodge to be based in Kidsgrove. On 15th September, 1881, a meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Staffordshire was convened to consecrate the new Lodge at the National School, Kidsgrove, later known as Kinnersley Memorial C. of E. Junior School, much to the delight of the schoolchildren who were given the afternoon off.
After the meeting, the brethren adjourned to a banquet at the Harecastle Hotel, Kidsgrove which was presided over by the new Worshipful Master, W. Bro. William Saxe Pearson.
In 1956, a warrant was issued by Grand Lodge for the formation of a Daughter Lodge, to be known as Clough Hall Lodge No. 7481, which of course still meets regularly at the Masonic Hall, Kidsgrove.
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