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Latitude: 52.9779 / 52°58'40"N
Longitude: -0.021 / 0°1'15"W
OS Eastings: 532974
OS Northings: 344116
OS Grid: TF329441
Mapcode National: GBR JWH.7HZ
Mapcode Global: WHHLQ.ND6X
Plus Code: 9C4XXXHH+5J
Entry Name: Freemasons' Hall
Listing Date: 14 February 1975
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1388927
English Heritage Legacy ID: 486388
ID on this website: 101388927
Location: Boston, Lincolnshire, PE21
County: Lincolnshire
District: Boston
Electoral Ward/Division: Trinity
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Boston
Traditional County: Lincolnshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lincolnshire
Church of England Parish: Boston St Botolph
Church of England Diocese: Lincoln
Tagged with: Masonic temple
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
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