Clerkenwell Masonic Meeting House - The Old Sessions House

Welcome to this very ancient and beautiful building where I've sweated many an hour over ritual and enjoyed much good company.
On entering you pass through a vestibule, where you will be met by a Doorman. Then you enter the main hall under a great dome where you are faced by the main stairway. At the top of this is the portrait of the Grand Master of England, The Duke of Kent. You will always see this Portrait in our places.
The Hall also contains the Elizabethan Bar.

Beneath this dome is wonderful detail work and heraldry

After a drink or two here we would then go into one of the temples for the meeting. It should be understood here that the word temple in this ancient context means MEETING PLACE, not a religious place. Prayers are offered at the beginning and ending of Lodges, but to the deity of choice of the members. We require an acceptance of one God, but by which means a member comes to that God is up to them.

After the meeting we retire to either the bar above or to the Dungeon Bar below. Being an old Court House, there were dungeons down here!!

Before finally settling down to a meal together, called the Festive Board.

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