SIR CHARLES LANYON                            LODGE NO. 64

PAST MASTER'S JEWEL 1955

CATEGORIES OF JEWELS

SIR CHARLES LANYON

LODGE NO. 64

PAST MASTER'S JEWEL

CONTENTS:-

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      1.   DESCRIPTION OF JEWEL        

      2.   SHORT HISTORY WARRANT NO. 64.

      3.    HISTORY OF "SIR CHARLES              LANYON" LODGE NO. 64 1891 - TO              DATE.

      4.   SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF SIR              CHARLES LANYON

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1.  DESCRIPTION OF JEWEL.

 OBVERSE OF JEWEL

A silver Past Master's Jewel suspended from a sky blue ribbon by two silver bars.

The Compass and Square is a standard silver Past Master's Jewel with a fixed "G".

  REVERSE OF JEWEL

  The reverse of the Jewel bears the inscription :

"Presented to

W.Bro. W.J. Glencross

W.M. 1955

by Masonic Lodge No. 64"

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2. SHORT HISTORY OF WARRANT NO. 64

 Warrant No. 64 Issued to brethren in DUBLIN on the 1st  February 1737.

 Warrant No. 64 was Returned to grand lodge on 8th July  1825.

 Warrant No. 64  was reissued on the 6th October, 1825 to  hold  a lodge in the village of Cross, close to  BALLYMONEY,County  Antrim.

 Warrant No. 64 was suspended on the 6th August 1840 but  restored on the 4th June 1846"

 Warrant No. 64 was finally sent up in trust on the  6th August  1862.

 [The above represents the barest of facts relating to Warrant No. 561 before same reissued to SIR CHARLES LANYON LODGE NO. 64 - the IRISH MASONIC RECORDS cd-rom gives a very full account of the Lodges who held Warrant No. 64 for the years setout above]

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 3. HISTORY OF "SIR CHARLES LANYON"                                LODGE NO. 64

It is shown in the Minutes of the Grand Lodge Board of General Purposes of 1st June 1891 that they read a Memorial from Bros. S. Nettleton, Johnston and Baxter and eight others for a Warrant to hold a Lodge in Belfast. Recommended by Lodges 69, 659 and 29 and by the P.D.G.M. of Antrim.  Regular fee enclosed. The Board recommended the issue of a Warrant to be numbered "64".

At the Grand Lodge Meeting of 4th  June 1891 this recommendation was   approved and the Warrant numbered 64 was to be re-issued to "Sir Charles Lanyon Lodge" in Arthur Square, BELFAST, which   happened on 8th June   1891.

Series three Vol. 6 of the extant Grand Lodge Registers shows:-

William J. Nettelton (31); Henry Johnston (686) and Henry Baxter (31) registered along with 8 others, 8th June 1891.   

the Sir Charles Lanyon Lodge celebrated it's centenary in 1991.   

  and is on   the current list of lodges on the register of grand   lodge ~ the lodge   meets at arthur square on the 2nd tues. at   7.00 p.m. (ex. 6,7 & 8). 

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4. SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF SIR CHARLES LANYON

  "SIR CHARLES LANYON LODGE NO. 64" was named in 1891in   honour of Sir Charles Lanyon who died in 1889.

SIR CHARLES LANYON

 Sir Charles Lanyon (1813 to 1889) was an English architect of  the 19th Century. His work is most closely associated with  Belfast, Northern Ireland

Lanyon was born in the seaside town of Eastbourne, Sussex (now East Sussex) in 1813. Following his education, he moved to Dublin in the 1830s, working as an apprentice civil engineer at the city's Irish Board of Works. Whilst here he married the daughter of his tutor Jacob Owens, whose son Thomas Ellis Owen was also a noted architect. He followed this with a short time as County Surveyor in Kildare, before moving on to Antrim in 1835. He remained County Surveyor of Antrim until 1860.

  Arthur Square Masonic Hall,

                                        Designed by Sir Charles Lanyon

His famous works include Queen's University. He designed the main building of Queen's University of Belfast in 1849. Another  was Crumlin Road Gaol and Courthouse -  Other works by Lanyon  in Belfast   include the Linenhall Library, Belfast Castle, the  Palm House at the Belfast Botanic Gardens, Stranmillis  House,  The Assembly Rooms in Waring Street and both the Queen's  Bridge and Ormeau Bridge.

The Campanile of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, was designed by Lanyon and completed in1853.

Sir Charles Lanyon also designed the Custom House in 1857, considered by many to be Belfast's finest architectural feature.

Sir Charles Lanyon was elected Mayor of Belfast in 1862, and Conversative MP for the city between 1865 and 1868. In 1868 he was also knighted. He died in his Whiteabbey home in 1889 and buried in Newtownbreda graveyard.

SIR CHARLES LANYON

R.W. Bro. Sir Charles Lanyon was a Member of and Past Master of Lodge 7. He was Provincial Deputy Grand Master of Belfast and North Down from 1863 to 1868, Provincial Deputy Grand Master of Antrim from 1868 to 1883 and Provincial Grand Master of Antrim from 1883 to 1889.

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