Mark Masons' Hall, London

The site of 86 St James's Street has been used for public houses and private clubs since the early 18th century.

Following several other landlords, Richard John Atwood took on the lease in 1774 and ran the premises as a coffee house and a club.

In 1772 he established a club called Atwood's which counted the historian and freemason Edward Gibbon among its members.

On 3 December 1977, The Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons of England and Wales obtained a lease for a term of 99 years.

The right hand bay at the top of a flight of stone steps provides the main double doorway entrance.

Above the steeply pitched slate roof at each side stand two tall rustic banded chimney stacks.

[4] There is also an unofficial connection with Ye Antient Order of Noble Corks, an informal "fun" degree dedicated to charitable fund raising, which was once strongly associated with Mark Masonry, as the members of the Great Board of Corks traditionally used to be senior Mark Master Masons.