Location
The steps lead from the Baptistry up towards the north stairs to the Gallery (see Cathedral Plan).
 

Memorial
Memorial to The Freemasons
 
Inscription
[A series of Freemasons Marks]


 
Further Information
The Brethren donated the cost of a new Chapter Room in St. Thomas's which was handed over by the Provincial Grand Master to the Bishop Neville Lovett at a ceremony attended by many members of the Craft on 11th October 1927. A second ceremony took place afterwards which related to the stone stairway by which the choir entered for Divine Service, the cost of which was defrayed by members of the Thomas à Becket Lodge of Mark Master Masons, whose marks are engraved on the steps leading to the North Gallery of the Cathedral.
 
For a history of the Freemasons in Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight see the History in Portsmouth website.
 

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