Catalogue description LOYAL LODGE OF FREEMASONS, BARNSTAPLE

This record is held by North Devon Record Office (South West Heritage Trust)

Details of B709
Reference: B709
Title: LOYAL LODGE OF FREEMASONS, BARNSTAPLE
Description:

Minutes, attendance books, declarations books, correspondence, annual returns and accounts
Date: 1783-1956
Held by: North Devon Record Office (South West Heritage Trust), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

United Grand Lodge of Freemasons, Loyal Lodge, Barnstaple, Devon
Physical description: 35 files
Administrative / biographical background:

The Loyal Lodge of Freemasons was established in Barnstaple in 1783, after an earlier lodge, founded in 1762, closed in 1776. Its official number was originally 453, but it was assigned different numbers at various times until 1862, when the present number, 251, was adopted. The first meetings were held at the Globe Inn in Queen Street, but as the membership expanded a number of other venues were used. In 1868, the lodge moved to Queen Anne's Walk (at present occupied by Barnstaple Heritage Centre), where it stayed until moving to Trafalgar Lawn in the Newport area of Barnstaple in 1966. For a published historical account of the lodge, see T Pook, History of the Loyal Lodge of Freemasons, No. 251, Barnstaple, 1783-1933
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