Plaque

Freemasons

Photograph by: London Remembers

Photograph by: London Remembers

Inscription

Corporation of the City of London
Near this site the Grand Lodge of English Freemasons first met in 1717.

Site: Freemasons, YMCA & Castle Baynard Ward Club (3 memorials)

EC4, St Paul's Churchyard

The two plaques face each other, on the inside walls of the arcade. The Castle Baynard tree is the one to the right in the photo.

2019: A London Inheritance has a post about the building that was on this site up until WW2, the offices, factory and warehouses of Hitchcock, Williams & Co.. The firm moved into number 72 sometime after 1853 and then expanded to take in many of the surrounding buildings. The buildings were destroyed by bombs on 29 December 1940.

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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Freemasons

Subjects commemorated i

Grand Lodge of England

By 1717 the Masonic lodges were already clubs having no connection to stone-m...

This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Freemasons

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Corporation of the City of London

The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and...

This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Freemasons

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Castle Baynard Ward Club

Planted by the Chairman of the Castle Baynard Ward Club, Professor Anthony Tr...

YMCA

Williams was working as a buyer at Hitchcock, Rogers & Co., a large retai...

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John Horne Tooke - SW19

SW19, West Side Common, Chester House

The plaque can be seen in our photo between the two lower windows towards the right.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - W1

W1, Upper Wimpole Street, 2

Westminster City Council Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author, 1859 - 1930, worked and wrote here in 1891. Arthur Conan Doyle Society

1 subject commemorated, 2 creators

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Sir Percy Cradock

TW1, Richmond Road, 303

Both Wikipedia and The Guardian spell the name with one 'd'.

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Ali Mohammed Abbas

WC1, Tavistock Square, 33

Erected by Camden Borough Council Ali Mohammed Abbas, 1922 - 1979, barrister and one of the founders of Pakistan, lived here, 1945 - 1979.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator

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Rokesley

EC3, Lombard Street, 72

In a house on this site lived Gregory de Rokesley, eight times Mayor of London, 1274 - 1281 and 1285. The Corporation of the City of London

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator

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