Where we meet

Southgate Masonic Centre

Address:

88 High Street

Southgate

London

N14 6EB

United Kingdom

Telephone:

020 7886 0952

How to reach the centre:

Car: The easiest route would be to take the M25 (exit @ Junction 24 for Stagg Hill, and follow down Cockfosters Road)

We are also accessible via the North Circular @ Junction A111 and A1004

Bus: Bus Routes that go through our area to the Masonic Centre are, the 298, W6 and the 121.

Train/Underground: The closest underground station to us is the Southgate Underground Station on the Piccadilly Line which is 300 yards away.

The Centre is home to 100 Lodges of which 12 are from Middlesex, along with 36 Chapters.

How it all began?

In April 1963 a number of Middlesex Masons, some of them also members of London Lodges, set up a company to provide a permanent Masonic centre in the north of the Province. The company, named the North Middlesex Masonic Centre was incorporated. The Middlesex Lodges that joined had been meeting in pubs and similar venues and warmly welcomed the opportunity to have their own Centre. The search for premises was hard, due to insufficient funds. There was still a general shortage of suitable premises, with many popular meeting places in and around Barnet closing their doors to Freemasonry, causing problems for Lodges and Chapters in Hertfordshire and London as well as Middlesex. In response to this, Grand Lodge gave a dispensation to broaden the five mile London rule, declaring a neutral territory in which Masons from London, Hertfordshire and Essex could all meet without any change of Province. This ruling created a great surge of interest, promising more capital in the future and the search became more vigorous. On 24 July the Chairman of the company signed a contract to purchase a converted church hall at High Street, Southgate, but the story did not end there and a private loan had to be arranged before the title was finally filed on 7 March 1968. A resolution was passed changing the company name to Southgate Masonic Centre Limited to express fully its capacity of operating in neutral territory.

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For more information on the centre, please visit www.southgatemasoniccentre.co.uk