The vast majority of the ‘additional’ degrees worked in England in the early part of the nineteenth century originally came under the patronage of warrants granted by the ‘Antients’, who held that Craft Warrants entitled Lodges to work any Masonic degree to which they had knowledge and members available who could work it. Upon the formation of the United Grand Lodge various groups of degrees were gradually organised into separate Orders each with their own governing body. By the end of that century a large number of unrelated Degrees of no direct interest to any Grand Body was still being worked in different parts of the country. In the late 1870’s it was agreed by the then Grand Secretaries of the Craft, Mark, and Ancient and Accepted Rite to establish a ‘Grand Council of the Allied Masonic Degrees in England and Wales and the Colonies and Dependencies of the British Crown’. The headquarters would be at Mark Masons’ Hall. It was also agreed that no new body purporting to be a Masonic body could be legally established in England without the consent of the Governing Bodies of the Knights Templar, the Ancient and Accepted Rite, the Mark Masters, the Red Cross of Constantine, the Royal and Select Masters, and the new Grand Council; and that any new body established with such consent should be under the direction of the Grand Council. Thus was born Grand Council, which we know now as the Grand Council of the Allied Masonic Degrees of England and Wales and Districts, and Councils Overseas.District Grand Council and Councils in Surrey
The Annual Meeting of the District is held on the first Saturday in December, followed by a luncheon.Full details of all the Councils in the District of Surrey are listed below. If you need any further help or information just contact the District Grand Secretary, via email by clicking here, who will be only too pleased to assist you.
The Councils comprising the District of Surrey are as follows:
Southern Cross, No XIII: Meeting at Guildford, 2nd Wednesday in September and by Dispensation
Surrey No 64: Meeting at Croydon, 3rd Monday in March, 1st Monday in June; 3rd Monday in December
Kyngstun No 102: Meeting at Surbiton, 2nd Tuesday in May; 1st Wednesday in September
Pride of Surrey No 128: Meeting at Sutton, 1st Tuesday in April, 1st Friday in June
Godalming No185: Meeting at Godalming, 2nd Monday in January; 3rd Friday in July
Runnymede No 191: Meeting at Chertsey, 1st Friday in February and May; 1st Monday in October
Surrey Hills Council No 208: Meeting at Redhill on 3rd Wednesday in April and 2nd Tuesday in November.
Riverside Council No 212: Meeting at South West Surrey Masonic Centre, Guildford, 3rd Thursday in February (Installation) and 1st Tuesday in September.