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architects , to have this chapter of architectural history likewise cleared up , for it has long been the opinion that the members of the school of Wren were all Craftsmen , and that an intercourse was thereby maintained which cannot have been without its influence . If the architects ^ of the age of Anne and the early Georges were thus brought together in the Lodge of
Antiquity and other old Lodges , it will show that a professional organization was supplied , which at a later period was afforded by the Royal Academy , and in this generation much more effectively by the Royal Institute of British Architects . It is desirable to deterinine who of Wren ' s followers and pupils were so brought together , and how far and how long the schoolof St . Paul ' s was maintained . '
In treating of the life of Soane , " Scriba" should not forget his donation of ^ 500 to the Fund of General Purposes in 1832 , and other acts of his Masonic life ; nor can the crowning act of his public career pass unrecorded , that he left to the nation his house , library , gallery , and museum , together with a fund for the relief of distressed architects . In enumerating his architectural labours , his publications should be referred to , for at an
early period of his life he made his appearance as an architectural author , ¦ —a very worthy example ? and which it is to be wished were more imitated by architects of this day . There is many a great structure of this period which has no fitting record , and it would be a most useful service to the public were the architect to bestow sonle small share of his earnings in the description and delineation of his works .
Both in the case of Soane and Wren , the records of their Lodges should be referred to for a more copious detail of their career in the Craft , and it is to be hoped that in this endeavour u Scriba" will be seconded by the Lodge authorities . It would by no means be an inconsiderable contribution to Masonic literature , were ' a history of individual Lodges to be contributed to the
FreemasonsMagazine , by those members having access to the annals of their Lodges , and an authentic foundation would thus be laid for a wider Masonic history . To throw open the pages of the Magazine for such a purpose would be a great public boon ; to contribute to them would be a most deserving effort of individual exertion . The Lodge of Antiquity , No . 2 , out of regard to the Masonic services of Wren , is strongly called upon to contribute , so far as its records extend , to the illustration of his
career . The brief history of the Witham Lodge , No . 374 , is an example of a monograph of Lodge history , and there are some others of American Lodges , but on the whole , Lodge history has been neglected ; and yet , when we consider that the Lodges frequented by Wren and his contemporaries , the Lodge of Antiquity , the Lodge of Fidelity , the Royal Somerset House , the St . George ' s and Corner-stone , the British , the Albion , the Westminster
and Key-stone , the Enoch , the Lodge of Fortitude and Old Cumberland , the Tuscan , the Kent , the Royal Alpha , the Old Dundee , the Lodge of Emulation , the Neptune , the Globe , the Old King ' s Arms , the St . Albans , the Britannic , and many others , have records of above a century ' s existence , there must be a large number of facts available . There are too , many old provincial Lodges , the Royal Kent at Chatham , the
Newcastleupon-Tyne Lodge , the St . George ' s at Liverpool , the Medina at Cowes , the Glamorgan at Cardiff , the Anchor and Hope at Bolton , the St . John the Baptist at Exeter , the Royal Cumberland at Bath , the St . Paul ' s at Birmingham , the Newstead at Nottingham , the Union at Norwich , the Humher Lodge at Hull , and more than we dare now enumerate in a long muster roll of names—but which may give us facts as to a very obscure
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Our Architegtxteal Chapter.
architects , to have this chapter of architectural history likewise cleared up , for it has long been the opinion that the members of the school of Wren were all Craftsmen , and that an intercourse was thereby maintained which cannot have been without its influence . If the architects ^ of the age of Anne and the early Georges were thus brought together in the Lodge of
Antiquity and other old Lodges , it will show that a professional organization was supplied , which at a later period was afforded by the Royal Academy , and in this generation much more effectively by the Royal Institute of British Architects . It is desirable to deterinine who of Wren ' s followers and pupils were so brought together , and how far and how long the schoolof St . Paul ' s was maintained . '
In treating of the life of Soane , " Scriba" should not forget his donation of ^ 500 to the Fund of General Purposes in 1832 , and other acts of his Masonic life ; nor can the crowning act of his public career pass unrecorded , that he left to the nation his house , library , gallery , and museum , together with a fund for the relief of distressed architects . In enumerating his architectural labours , his publications should be referred to , for at an
early period of his life he made his appearance as an architectural author , ¦ —a very worthy example ? and which it is to be wished were more imitated by architects of this day . There is many a great structure of this period which has no fitting record , and it would be a most useful service to the public were the architect to bestow sonle small share of his earnings in the description and delineation of his works .
Both in the case of Soane and Wren , the records of their Lodges should be referred to for a more copious detail of their career in the Craft , and it is to be hoped that in this endeavour u Scriba" will be seconded by the Lodge authorities . It would by no means be an inconsiderable contribution to Masonic literature , were ' a history of individual Lodges to be contributed to the
FreemasonsMagazine , by those members having access to the annals of their Lodges , and an authentic foundation would thus be laid for a wider Masonic history . To throw open the pages of the Magazine for such a purpose would be a great public boon ; to contribute to them would be a most deserving effort of individual exertion . The Lodge of Antiquity , No . 2 , out of regard to the Masonic services of Wren , is strongly called upon to contribute , so far as its records extend , to the illustration of his
career . The brief history of the Witham Lodge , No . 374 , is an example of a monograph of Lodge history , and there are some others of American Lodges , but on the whole , Lodge history has been neglected ; and yet , when we consider that the Lodges frequented by Wren and his contemporaries , the Lodge of Antiquity , the Lodge of Fidelity , the Royal Somerset House , the St . George ' s and Corner-stone , the British , the Albion , the Westminster
and Key-stone , the Enoch , the Lodge of Fortitude and Old Cumberland , the Tuscan , the Kent , the Royal Alpha , the Old Dundee , the Lodge of Emulation , the Neptune , the Globe , the Old King ' s Arms , the St . Albans , the Britannic , and many others , have records of above a century ' s existence , there must be a large number of facts available . There are too , many old provincial Lodges , the Royal Kent at Chatham , the
Newcastleupon-Tyne Lodge , the St . George ' s at Liverpool , the Medina at Cowes , the Glamorgan at Cardiff , the Anchor and Hope at Bolton , the St . John the Baptist at Exeter , the Royal Cumberland at Bath , the St . Paul ' s at Birmingham , the Newstead at Nottingham , the Union at Norwich , the Humher Lodge at Hull , and more than we dare now enumerate in a long muster roll of names—but which may give us facts as to a very obscure