Qualla: Freemasons' Hall, London https://qualla.com/freemasons-hall-london en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/freemasons-hall-london-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Freemasons' Hall, London https://qualla.com/freemasons-hall-london Freemasons' Hall, London: Introduction https://qualla.com/freemasons-hall-london/ Photo credit Airdrake, CC BY 2.5. Walter Gilbert's bronze doors weigh a tonne and a quarter each. They open onto a chamber 123 feet long, 90 feet wide, and 62 feet high, capable of seating 1,700 people. The ceiling is a Mosaic field of cardinal virtues and Masonic symbols; behind the dais sits a Henry Willis & Sons pipe organ from 1933, restored in 2015. This is the Grand Temple at Freemasons' Hall on Great Queen Street, and almost no one walking past it on the way to Covent Garden realises what's inside. The building is a war memorial. The 3,225 Freemasons who died on active service in World War I are remembered not with a stone obelisk but with the largest Masonic complex in England, an Art Deco cathedral hiding 27 separate temples beneath one Portland stone facade.

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/freemasons-hall-london-wp/gcpv-freemasons-hall-london-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Freemasons' Hall, London: Three Buildings, One Street https://qualla.com/freemasons-hall-london/ Photo credit David Hawgood, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Freemasons bought this plot in 1775, picking a house on Great Queen Street between Holborn and Covent Garden, with a second house behind it across a garden. They held a competition to design a Grand Hall linking the two structures. Thomas Sandby won it. His hall was dedicated...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/freemasons-hall-london-wp/gcpv-freemasons-hall-london-three-buildings-one-street.mp3 0:06 2 full Freemasons' Hall, London: The Masonic Peace Memorial https://qualla.com/freemasons-hall-london/ Photo credit Doyle of London, CC BY-SA 4.0. Henry Victor Ashley and F. Winton Newman designed the present building between 1927 and 1933, after the Masonic Million Memorial Fund raised over a million pounds from Freemasons across England. The result was originally called the Masonic Peace Memorial. Then Hitler invaded Pola...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/freemasons-hall-london-wp/gcpv-freemasons-hall-london-the-masonic-peace-memorial.mp3 0:06 3 full Freemasons' Hall, London: Twenty-Seven Doors https://qualla.com/freemasons-hall-london/ Photo credit Eluveitie, CC BY-SA 3.0. Beyond the Grand Temple, the building contains 26 further temples, no two identical. Temple No 10 sits beneath the great clock tower and gets extra height for an Egyptian-Art Deco hybrid with a high domed ceiling and its own Willis pipe organ. Temple No 11 was funded largely by d...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/freemasons-hall-london-wp/gcpv-freemasons-hall-london-twenty-seven-doors.mp3 0:06 4 full Freemasons' Hall, London: The Library and the Public https://qualla.com/freemasons-hall-london/ Photo credit Bhughes mof, CC BY-SA 4.0. Anyone can walk in. Parts of the building are open daily, and admission to the Museum of Freemasonry is free. The museum was recognised by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council in 2007 as a collection of outstanding national and international significance. Inside are Masoni...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/freemasons-hall-london-wp/gcpv-freemasons-hall-london-the-library-and-the-public.mp3 0:06 5 full Freemasons' Hall, London: Hollywood Comes Knocking https://qualla.com/freemasons-hall-london/ Photo credit Jason Peper, CC BY-SA 2.0. Film crews have noticed what most pedestrians have not. The Grand Temple stood in for The Grand Templar Hall in the 2016 Assassin's Creed movie, sporting double Templar crosses on its facade for the closing scenes. The building plays Thames House, MI5's real-world home, in the TV...

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