Maplestead - 256

This Preceptory was constituted in 1929

The Preceptory meets at;
            St. Giles Masonic Centre,
            5 St. Johns Green,
            Colchester, Essex.
            CO2 7EZ.
Meeting on;
            2nd Thursday in February (Installation)
            1st Thursday in April (Malta)
            2nd Wednesday in May
            1st Wednesday in September
            2nd Thursday in November (Malta)
Registrar
            E.Kt Malcolm Peter
            Reg256@essexkt.org
History
            The oldest Preceptory in the Province of the current era. When Essex became a sovereign body
            in September 1930 under the authority of Mark Masons Hall, where it had been consecrated in
            January 1929, the Maplestead Preceptory had taken its name after Little Maplestead, home of the
            round church in that parish which has suggestions with the Knights Hospitallers. This is one of
            only four round churches in England and its shape was favoured by the Knights Templar in most of
            their ecclesiastical buildings wherever they settled throughout the world. Has always met in
            Colchester and was founded by the Rev. Felix E Crate who became the first Provincial Prior of Essex.