Local Government
Murray
Region
Peel
1922 Pinjarra Rd Pinjarra
Masonic Lodge
Murray
Peel
Constructed from 1903
Type | Status | Date | Documents |
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Heritage List | Adopted | ||
State Register | Registered | 05 Jan 2001 | HCWebsite.Listing+ListingDocument, HCWebsite.Listing+ListingDocument |
Type | Status | Date | Documents |
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Type | Status | Date | Grading/Management | |
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Municipal Inventory | Adopted | 29 Aug 2013 | Category A | |
Classified by the National Trust | Classified | 14 Dec 1998 |
Masonic Hall is a fine Federation Gothic building with a particularly well resolved entrance portico. Masonic Hall is a landmark on the western approach to Pinjarra. Masonic Hall is associated with the McLarty family, who were prominent in the history of Pinjarra, the Shire of Murray and the State.
Masonic Hall is a single-storey brick and corrugated iron building in the Federation Gothic style, with later utilitarian additions constructed in timber frame, clad in asbestos cement.
Soon after the Grand Lodge of Western Australia was officially declared, a group of men in the Murray region – led by John Pollard McLarty, John McNab, Alfred Thomas and William Warwick – began planning the formation of their own Masonic Hall in Pinjarra. In the meantime, they met in the Mechanics’ Institute. In July 1903, contractors Crothers and Hodd entered into a contract for the erection of Masonic Hall, Pinjarra, which was proposed to be ‘a fine brick building, up to-date in every way’. In August 1903, Pinjarra Town Lot 42 was purchased by McLarty, McNab, Thomas and Warwick, from the Church of England for £55. On 8 November 1903, the foundation stone of Masonic Hall was laid by Hon. Bro. Edward McLarty. The Hall was constituted and consecrated on 15 April 1904 by the Grand Master, the Hon. J W. Hackett, with the assistance of Bro. Rev. Edward Clairs, and henceforth identified as Murray Lodge 69. After the official ceremony, a banquet was held at the nearby Exchange Hotel. In 1920, Kingsley Fairbridge, the founder of the Fairbridge Farm School, was initiated into Murray Lodge 69. In the 1980s, an asbestos sheeting addition was erected at the rear of the hall to provide additional kitchen and dining facilities. In the mid 1990s, all external walls of the original red brick hall were painted cream. Owing to lowering membership numbers, Murray Lodge 69 integrated with Mandurah Lodge 262 and a new combined lodge building at Furnissdale commenced construction in 1998. The Masonic Hall has been unoccupied for some time; however the building has been undergoing lengthy and extensive conservation work. In 2012 approval was granted to demolish the 1980s supper room to the south.
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Ref Number | Description |
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051 | Municipal Inventory |
Library Id | Title | Medium | Year Of Publication |
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7387 | Pinjarra masonic lodge and hall (fmr) : final conservation plan. | Heritage Study {Cons'n Plan} | 2005 |
9918 | Pinjarra Masonic Hall, conservation works. | Conservation works report | 2011 |
Individual Building or Group
Epoch | General | Specific |
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Present Use | SOCIAL\RECREATIONAL | Masonic Hall |
Original Use | SOCIAL\RECREATIONAL | Masonic Hall |
Style |
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Federation Gothic |
Type | General | Specific |
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Roof | METAL | Corrugated Iron |
Wall | BRICK | Common Brick |
Other | ASBESTOS | Other Asbestos |
General | Specific |
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SOCIAL & CIVIC ACTIVITIES | Community services & utilities |
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