TWELVE MASONIC DECORATIVE
PLAQUES (SMALL TEMPLE)

These plaques decorate the walls of the
Small Temple, and the designs utilise the symbology of Craft masonry.

This plaque shows the 47th proposition of Euclid, also known as Pythagoras' Theorem.

This plaque shows a knotted pentagram.

This plaque shows the Volume of the Sacred Law.

This plaque shows the twenty-four inch gauge.

This plaque shows a craftsman's square.

This plaque shows a craftsman's plumb and level.

This plaque shows a skirret and a pencil. For those of you who might be wondering what a skirret is - it is a tool, usually stuck in the ground, which acts upon a freely rotating center-pin, whence a line (or a piece of string) is drawn out in order to generate a straight line between two points.

This plaque shows a lyre, an ancient Greek stringed instrument, plucked to produce sound. Symbolically the lyre represents the principles of concord and harmony, or more literally music, which may form part of masonic ceremonial.

This plaque shows a crescent moon and the seven stars which make up the Pleiades.

This plaque shows a perennial masonic symbol, the pair of compasses.

This plaque shows the all-seeing eye.

This plaque shows the mallet and chisel.