The Degrees 

 

The majority of the ‘additional’ Degrees worked in England in the early part of the nineteenth century originally came under the patronage of Lodges granted Warrants 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 of England in 1813, 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 & 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 Order is administered from Mark Masons’ Hall. 

The Allied Masonic Degrees are:

• St Lawrence the Martyr 
• Knight of Constantinople
• Grand Tilers of Solomon
• Red Cross of Babylon
• Grand High Priest

Each offers fresh insight, symbolism, and enjoyment.  The first degree taken is always St Lawrence the Martyr, the others may then be taken in any order.