Worcestershire Masonic Library & Museum

The exhibits include a selection of engraved glass, much of it from the 19th century, and almost all of it very attractive to the layman as well as interesting to the Mason.

The Museum

A very large display of ceramics – jugs, dishes, tankards etc. – decorated with Masonic symbols, largely from the late 18th and early 19th centuries; a case devoted to curiosities; trivets, horse-brasses, meerschaum pipes, unusual gavels and other such Masonic bric-a-brac that always arouse interest. There is a remarkable collection of historic medals and jewels, both Craft and Royal Arch, and a very large group pf more modern jewels appertaining to Worcestershire Lodges and Chapters on permanent display. There are several items of antique regalia including pictorial and hand painted aprons, some of them from 18th century France and some unusual items of Lodge furniture.

The Library

The Library is a very well-endowed facility for anyone interested in research into the history of Masonry. The large antiquarian stock includes early editions of nearly all the printed ‘exposures’ of the mid-18th century (without which our knowledge of early English Masonry would be far less complete) and five old manuscripts, three of which are among the earliest surviving versions of the Ancient Charges, the ‘Wood’, ‘Inigo Jones’ and ‘Lechmere’ MSs.