W. Bro Michael F. Robins

Ditton, Aylesford

W. Bro Michael F. Robins

01732-842336

Date of Warrant, 1962.

The Lodge meets:
The Second Thursdays in the months, October to April, being the regular meetings with the Installation in October.

Lodge of Instruction:
The L.O.I. meets 7-30 every Thursday Sept to May Incl apart from the 2nd Thurs in the months Oct to April which are our regular meetings, commencing at 6-15.

The summer class of instruction meets June to Aug every 2nd Thursday at 7-30 pm

Ritual: Stability

The Chapter Scribe-E is: W.Bro G. Smith. Click here for further details

History of the Maeides Stana Lodge

The Lodge was consecrated on 5th February 1963 at The Royal Star Hotel, Maidstone by the Right Honourable and Right Worshipful, the Baron Cornwallis of Linton, Provincial Grand Master.

The title of the Lodge ''Maeides Stana'' is derived from the Anglo-Saxon language and means ''a town on the Medway''. The Founders of the Lodge were drawn from a wide circle of professional, commercial and public service interests in Kent.

The primary reason for the foundation of the Lodge was that its activities should be dedicated to the pursuit of charity, assisting both civil and Masonic causes. A policy which has continued to this day. One of the other objectives which was realised when the Lodge was formed was that the
''Stability Ritual'', which was, in essence, one of the oldest ceremonial forms practised in English Freemasonry, would again be used within the Province of East Kent. This was assisted when the Lodge was a founding member of the Stability Ritual Association in 1987, which then produced the definitive Ritual in 1991 now accepted by the 17 Lodges working Stability Ritual under the auspices of the United Grand Lodge of England.

The Lodge is one of eight owner lodges of the Maidstone Masonic Centre Ltd., and has played its part in the development of the Masonic life in Maidstone, culminating in the Masonic Centre which you see today. Since its inception in 1963, the Lodge has grown and now has a membership of 45. It provides for its members a varied programme of Masonic and social events thereby cementing the fraternal bond between brethren and their families.

Additional Stability items of Interest
'Henry Muggeridge 1811-1899, A Life'.

The presentation of the above paper to the Lodge resulted in a Lodge Past Master tracing Henry Muggeridge’s final resting place, and his gravestone in Abney Park Cemetery. This in turn gave us the names of other members of his family buried in the same plot. Further investigation resulted with the finding of several Masonic artefacts, which had belonged to Henry Muggeridge, and now stored in the Masonic Museum at Great Queen Street.
Other papers including, ‘Historical Landmark: Stability Lodge of Instruction' by Bro. F.W. Golby, dated 07/05/1915, and a paper by Bro. Daniel on Bro. R. Hamiltion, First P.G. Master of East Jamaica, along with comments on that paper, all duly presented to the Quatour Coronati Lodge, are recommended reading by even the most casual observer of Stability Ritual. They inform us that, on the known facts, our Stability Ritual can be traced back, through Henry Muggeridge to the Act of Union in 1817 by the Grand Lodge of the Antients & the Grand Lodge of the Moderns, and the formation of the Lodge of Reconciliation, that settled the working of the three degrees, rehearsed the workings, and was approved by Grand Lodge of England in 1816.