Freemasons' Hall
FREEMASONS' HALL, MAIN RIDGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1388927
- Date first listed:
- 14-Feb-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Freemasons' Hall
- Statutory Address:
- FREEMASONS' HALL, MAIN RIDGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1388927
- Date first listed:
- 14-Feb-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Freemasons' Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- FREEMASONS' HALL, MAIN RIDGE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FREEMASONS' HALL, MAIN RIDGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- Boston (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 32974 44116
Details
BOSTON
TF3244SE MAIN RIDGE
716-1/7/94 (South side)
14/02/75 Freemasons' Hall
II
Masonic hall. 1860-3, internal C20 alterations. Gault brick
and ashlar, Welsh slate roof, plain red brick to sides and
rear. Egyptian Revival style.
EXTERIOR: front has steeply battered sides, with roll-moulded
ashlar quoins, rising to wide curved ashlar cornice carved
with the winged disc of the sun supported by asps. Set back
small parapet. 2 large central drum columns in ashlar, carved
at the base with leaves and on the shaft with hieroglyphics,
the capitals are of palmettes. On the entablature an
inscription in Egyptian hieroglyphics apparently reads 'In the
23rd year of the reign of Her Majesty the Royal Daughter
Victoria, Lady Most Gracious, this building was erected. May
it be prosperous'. Behind the open front is a steeply battered
doorway with stone surround, surmounted by winged sun and a
Greek inscription 'Know Myself'.
INTERIOR: the entrance hall, kitchen and banquet room on the
ground floor have been entirely remodelled C20, but the first
floor lodge room is decorated with masonic symbols including
the winged globe, the scarabeus, the lotus, the triangle of
light and the disc of the Sun. Built as a replica of the
Temple of Dandour in Nubia.
Listing NGR: TF3297444116
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 486388
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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