Photographic reproduction of an architect's drawing of the Freemasons' Hall showing a detail of the facade to Great Queen Street

Date:
17 May 1926
Location:
Masonic Peace Memorial, 55-56 Great Queen Street, Holborn, Camden, Greater London Authority, Wc2
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Freemasons' Hall, 55-56 Great Queen Street, Holborn, Camden, Greater London Authority, Wc2
Reference:
BL28307/005
Type:
Photograph (Negative)
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Description

This drawing is a design for the Masonic Peace Memorial, which was built between 1927 and 1933. The name was changed to the Freemasons' Hall at the outbreak of war in 1939. The Freemasons' Hall, the headquarters of English freemasonry, was designed by HV Ashley and Winton Newman, who received the commission as a result of a competition.

Content

This is part of the Series: HBL01/01 Series Of Photographic Negatives And Prints; within the Collection: HBL01 The Bedford Lemere Collection

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Photographer: Boucher, Adolphe Augustus: Bedford Lemere And Company

Keywords

Entrance, Early 20th Century Freemasons Hall