Surrey Companion Orders
Freemasonry does not end with the Craft. Beyond the Mark sits a family of further Orders, each with its own ceremonies and its own story.
Every Order below is active in and around Surrey, and many Surrey Mark members belong to several of them. For most, the journey starts here, with the Mark. The badges show what each Order asks of a candidate before he can join.
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About the Mark →Mark Master Masons
The friendly degree, and the home of this site. Its ceremony recalls the marks by which working masons knew their stone, and in Surrey it carries the fullest social calendar in the Province.
- Master Mason
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Read more →Royal Ark Mariner
A short and well-loved Order whose ritual recalls the legend of the Deluge. Worked under the same Provincial structure as the Mark, in lodges moored to Mark lodges.
- Mark Master Mason
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Visit →Order of the Secret Monitor
The Brotherhood of David and Jonathan, founded on watchful friendship and support in adversity. Its ceremonies are brief and warm, centred on looking out for one another.
- Master Mason
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Visit →Order of the Scarlet Cord
A companion Order to the Secret Monitor, drawing on the story of Rahab and the fall of Jericho. Revived as a sovereign body in 2010, it works through a series of grades with a strong charitable purpose.
- Master Mason
- Secret Monitor
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Visit →Ancient and Accepted Rite
A rite of thirty-three degrees whose central working is the eighteenth, the Rose Croix. Thoughtful and contemplative, it builds directly on the foundations laid in the Craft.
- Master Mason of six months
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Visit →Royal Order of Scotland
A historic Order tracing its traditions to the time of Robert the Bruce, with a distinctive rhyming ritual. Its members count the ceremony among the finest in Freemasonry.
- Master Mason of five years
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Visit →Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia
The oldest independent society of Rosicrucian Freemasons, given to the study of the Hermetic and esoteric traditions. Members pursue knowledge and self-discovery through papers and quiet ceremonial.
- Master Mason
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Visit →Royal & Select Masters
The Cryptic degrees, whose story concerns the secret vault King Solomon built beneath the Temple to protect its treasures. Many regard them as completing the story begun in the Craft and the Royal Arch.
- Mark Master Mason
- Holy Royal Arch
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Visit →Allied Masonic Degrees
A group of historic degrees preserved together under one governing council. A rewarding home for masons who enjoy the byways of ritual and Masonic history.
- Mark Master Mason
- Holy Royal Arch
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Visit →The Operatives
The Worshipful Society of Operative Free Masons, perpetuating the working practices of the old stone building guilds. Its assemblages preserve the ceremonies of the trade that speculative Freemasonry grew from.
- Mark Master Mason
- Holy Royal Arch
- By invitation
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Visit →Masonic Order of Athelstan
Centred on King Athelstan and the assembly at York in 926, where legend holds the Ancient Charges were given to the masons of England. The Order prizes its ceremonial and encourages research into the origins of the Craft.
- Master Mason
- Holy Royal Arch
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Visit →Knights Templar & Knights of Malta
The united chivalric Orders, recalling the medieval knights who protected pilgrims on the road to Jerusalem. Candidates take a vivid ceremony of pilgrimage and knighthood, with the Knights of Malta conferred alongside.
- Master Mason of six months
- Holy Royal Arch
- Christian faith
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Visit →Red Cross of Constantine
A Christian Order of knighthood recalling the vision of the emperor Constantine before battle. Four degrees are worked in Conclaves, with the Orders of the Holy Sepulchre and St John the Evangelist attached.
- Holy Royal Arch
- Trinitarian Christian
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Visit →St Thomas of Acon
A uniquely English commemorative Order rooted in the story of Thomas Becket and the Crusades. Its ceremonies dwell on humility and practical care for others.
- Knights Templar
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Visit →Knight Templar Priests
The Holy Royal Arch Knight Templar Priests and Order of Holy Wisdom, a contemplative Christian Order with roots in eighteenth century Ireland. Its Tabernacles confer thirty-three degrees of a priestly character.
- Knights Templar
- Trinitarian Christian
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Visit →Knights Beneficent of the Holy City
A small and distinguished chivalric Order of the Rectified Scottish Rite, worked in England since 2007. Membership is reserved for senior Knights Templar.
- Knights Templar
- By invitation
Each Order sets its own qualifications, and the badges show the usual path in. If one catches your interest, get in touch and we will point you to the right person.