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Welcome to the CTO1765 web site.

The CTO1765 is a group of masons who perform a demonstration of the ritual of the ‘First Degree’ as it was believed to be carried out in 1765.  The demonstration is enacted in period costume and is based on records of the Union Lodge of Jersey which was consecrated earlier that year.

The team has performed nearly 250 initiation demonstrations since since it started in 1940.

CTO1765 perform the demonstration for any UGLE approved lodge and have even travelled as far as Italy to do the demonstration.

The team is currently made up from masons from Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Essex and London.

Why do we do the demonstration?  Simple, to give masons an insight into early masonic ritual and to raise money for charity.  The demonstration attracts non Lodge members to the Lodge making a bigger meeting and a larger charity collection.

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