Masonic Miscellany

Interesting Meeting Places

The following is the list of the first 15 English lodges and their meetings places in public houses:

Time Immemorial

1 Lodge of Antiquity,Freemasons Tavern, Great Queen Street. (formerly Goose and Gridiron, St. Pauls Churchyard) 2 Somerset House Lodge, Freemasons Tavern (shown) which would become the Connaught Rooms in 1909.

1721

3 Lodge of Friendship,Thatched House Tavern, St James’s Street 4 British Lodge, White Horse, King Street, Golden Square 5 Westminster and Keystone Lodge, Horn Tavern, Palace Yard

1722

6 Lodge of Fortitude, Roebuck, Oxford Street 7 Lodge of St. Mary-la-bonne, Cavendish Square Coffee House 8 Ionic Lodge, Kings Arms, Brook Street, Grosvenor Square 9 Dundee Arms Lodge (P. Rm.), Red Lion Street, Wapping

1723

10 Kentish Lodge of Antiquity, Sun Tavern, Chatham 11 Kings Arms, Wandsworth, Surrey 12 Lodge of Emulation, Pauls Head Tavern, Cateaton Street 13 Fraternal Lodge,Mitre, Church Street, Greenwich 14 Globe Lodge,Globe Tavern, Fleet Street 15 Jacobs Ladder, Now London Tavern, Cheapside

The full list can been seen on the website Masonic Lodges 1792 to 1813. (deadpubs.co.uk)