1938/8
Jewel & Medal Collection - Worcestershire Museum of Freemasonry
Bronze Medal: Lodge L’Immortalité de l’Ordre, No. 376. London 1766
Date:- 1766 - Classification:- Lodge/Chapter Etc.; Consecration/Dedication
Description
OBVERSE: A man, nude but for his apron and a Master’s collar and jewel, with left knee resting on the plinth of a building, working with mallet and chisel at the carving on a panel of the inscription IMMORTALITATI/ORDINIS/IVIOCCLXVI Leaning against the plinth are a ruler, a level and a drawing board on which rest the compasses and a triangle, and on the ground a square; a pyramid is seen in the left background; and near the base of the plinth KIRK Around, LIBER. FRATR. ARCHITECTONIC. LONDINIENS.
REVERSE: A globe, irradiated by sixteen groups of rays reaching the edge alternately with sixteen shorter groups; below, a rectangular stone, encircled by a serpent, on which rests a sprig of acacia; on the front edge KIRK Around, NON EST MORTALE QUOD OPT. At the base, an indented border.
The Lodge L’Immortalité de l’Ordre was constituted in 1766 under the Mastership of the notorious De Vignoles, then acting as “Provincial Grand Master for Foreign Lodges”. The celebrated Chevalier D’Eon was an early initiate. Considerable animosity among some of the members in or about 1771 left the Lodge numerically and financially very weak; and it was erased in 1775.
Properties
40 mm. Bronze.
