Some History About Our Lodge
In the mid 1940’s Malvern was a town that was made up of several smaller townships with sharp divisions between the different parts. Once famous for its water cure it was also noted for its Annual Festival and for its educational establishments. The town expanded dramatically with the arrival of the Royal Radar Establishment, and as nationally, the interest in Freemasonry grew also and such was its demand that Lodges became oversubscribed and new ones were founded to accommodate them. In Malvern this resulted in the Consecration of the Malvern Hills Lodge.
From its inception the ritual of the Lodge has been most important and was, from the very start, prescribed originally by those Members who founded the Lodge. There have been alterations to the Ritual over the 50-plus years since the Consecration, some of which were specified as the result of decisions made by the Lodge Committee whilst others (mainly concerning the wording of the Emulation Ritual) have come about as the result of edicts from Grand Lodge and still others by usages which, by now, have become a traditional part of the Workings of the Lodge.
It is, therefore, apparent that the way in which procedures are now carried out must be described as “customary”. Brethren of the Lodge have assembled a formal written record of what should take place during our Ceremonies. It has been completed with the help of earlier records as well as by using the undoubted powers of memory of some of the older Past Masters of the Lodge, not to mention the Preceptors, past and present, of the Lodge of Instruction without whose efforts many of the established customs of the Malvern Hills Lodge would have been lost in the mists of time.
Also published, as a separate document, are the Inner Workings for the Installation Ceremony, the original master copy being lodged with the Preceptor of the Lodge of Instruction.
Brethren wishing to visit our Lodge should contact our secretary to arrange this, and the general public are welcome when the Masonic Hall is open on Heritage Days.
Our Installation meeting is particularly recommended to past masters.
