Leeds Freemasons Lodge
Along with The Lodge of Dawn, Freemasons from across Leeds have again answered a call to ensure that hundreds ofchildren from across the city will receive at least one present this festive season. Castle Grove Masonic Hall is home to a number of lodges and their members once again donated a huge range of presents … Read more
The November meeting saw our (relatively) new Worshipful Master, W Bro. Rosenhead, initiate his second new brother of the masonic year 23/24. Our newly made brother is a CPN (Community Psychiatric Nurse) by trade and works with mental health in the NHS. Along with the usual Entered Apprentice song and a wonderful festive board, James, … Read more
48 years after his initiation by his father, Francis Steven Rosenhead was installed into the Chair of King Solomon on Tuesday 26th September; the mantle being handed over by the now IPM, W Bro. Phil Fraser, in a ceremony attended by more than 70 brethren. W Bro. Chris Allen PJGD, Assistant Provincial Grand Master also … Read more
On the evening of 16th May The Lodge of Dawn played host to our 65th Junior Masters Night. This an annual event, which gives the members of our lodge who are not yet ‘on the ladder’ (ie not holding office in regular lodge) an opportunity to perform a First Degree Ceremony in the main temple … Read more
Back in May 2021 the Lodge of Dawn secured a grant of almost £25,000 from West Riding Masonic Charities Ltd for the building of a 4G AstroTurf MUGA (multi-use games area), for the Chapeltown Youth Development Centre (CFYDC) on Scott Hall Road in Leeds. This was completed later in the year. Since then the lodge … Read more
April’s ceremony was the Lodge of Dawn’s annual ‘Past Masters Night’, when previous masters of the lodge (known as ‘Past Masters’) take all of the ceremonial offices and deliver all of the ritual. In total 11 Past Masters of, and in, the lodge took part. See below. The ceremony was a Third Degree ceremony when … Read more
On Tuesday 20th April 2023 the inaugural annual Lodge of Dawn Pool tournament took place the the Northern Snooker Centre on Kirkstall Road in Leeds. Inspired by the Lodge of Fidelity Pool tournament, Bro Sam Fryer, joint winner of that tournament had spent months planning the event, even commissioning an exclusive trophy to be presented … Read more
Back in February 2020 one of the members of the Lodge of Dawn saw a news story in the Yorkshire Evening Post about a group of fed-up parents who had just launch an appeal to improve children’s playground. Under half a mile from our home at Castle Grove, Meanwood Park playground’s appeal sounded like the … Read more
On Monday 22nd September 1947, at Great George Street in Leeds city centre The Lodge of Dawn was consecrated. On Tuesday 28th March 2023, at Castle Grove Masonic Hall the lodge celebrated its 75th anniversary. Following a Second Degree ceremony, the brethren were joined by their wives and partners for a celebratory Festive Board. The … Read more
Each masonic year the masters of 20 Leeds Freemasons’ lodges form what is known as the ‘Leeds Masters Circle’. Every master from each lodge during their year in The Chair hosts a ‘Masters Night’, inviting all of the other masters in his circle to a ceremony. Tuesday 28th February was The Lodge of Dawn’s Masters … Read more