Basic Site Details | Name: | Masonic Lodge | | Town, district or village: | Bathgate | | City or county: | West Lothian | | Country: | Scotland | | Parish: | | | Status: | | | Grid ref: | | | Notes: | BATHGATE, LINLITHGOWSHIRE. -The foundation stone of the new Masonic temple to be erected in Bathgate by Lodge Torphichen, Kilwinning, No. 13, was laid on Saturday with full Masonic honours. The present hall is being built on the site of the hall used by the Hopetoun Lodge, No. 181, now dormant. The new building is being constructed from plans by Mr. Peter L. Henderson, architect, Edinburgh, and is of two stories in height, having club premises and a caretaker's house on the ground flat and the hall or lodge_room on the upper fiat, which is approached by a wide staircase, lighted by a window in the back wall, and consists of a hall 37feet long by 2l feet broad, and retiring_rooms and lavatories. The hall is lighted by a row of five windows to Jarvie-street, the centre one being an oriel window projecting over the entrance doorway, and supported by the keystone of same. Externally these windows are separated by carved, Ionic columns, after the German Renaissance style. The entrance doorway is massive, with deeply moulded jambs and archivolt, the latter broken by moulded rusticated voussoirs and keystone. [Building News 25 October 1901, p549] | Building Type Classification| The building is classified under the following categories: | | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes |  | Masonic hall | | |
Street Addresses| The following street addresses are associated with this building: | | | Address | Main entrance? | Notes | | Jarvey Street | Yes | |
Events| The following date-based events are associated with this building: | | | From | To | Event type | Notes | | 1901 | 1902 | Build/construction | | | October 1901 | | Foundation stone | |
PeopleDesign and Construction| The following individuals or organisations have carried out design/construction work. Where architects or practices worked together, matching letters appear beside their names in the Partnership Group column. | | | Name | Role | Partnership Group | From | To | Notes | | Peter Lyle Barclay Henderson | | A | 1901 | 1902 | |
ReferencesBibliographic References| The following books contain references to this building: | | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | McWilliam, Colin | 1978 | Lothian (The Buildings of Scotland) | | | p98 |
Periodical References| The following periodicals contain references to this building: | | | Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes | | Building News | 25 October 1901 | | | p549 |
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