Established 9th April 1875
Meeting Dates: 1st Tuesday in February, March, October and December
Installation: October
Meeting at:
Freemasons Hall,
2 Queen Street,
Chester
Cheshire
CH1 3LG
01244 324956
This Preceptory was consecrated on 9th September 1875 at the Grosvenor Hotel, Chester, by the Provincial Prior, Major Cornwall-Legh. The Eminent Preceptor was installed by C J Bannister, the Provincial Prior of Northumberland and Durham. The Warrant is dated 9th April 1875. The authority for the consecration was contained in a letter from the Great Chancellor dated 3rd September.
The Preceptory originally met in the Grosvenor Hotel but soon moved to Queen Street, Chester. The Preceptory has been described as having a distinctly clerical thread, and over the 1ast 50 years at least nine clerics have been installed including Rev Kenneth Charles White, Rev Canon J A Walker, Rev Canon Michael Rylands, who was Great Prelate in 1977, Rev Canon Leslie John Forster and Rev Kenneth Charles Taylor a past Provincial Prelate. Dr Horace Ingham was Eminent Preceptor in 1956 and Joseph Hawkes, Deputy Provincial Grand Master was a member. Sir Knight C L S Cornwall-Legh was installed a Knight.