Three past masters, realised that with Freemasonry  growing as life returned to normal after the War, there was a need for a new Lodge at Halsey Hall, Cheshunt. They found twelve others of a like mind and petitioned for the Lodge to to be formed. It was named after the Eleanor Cross which stands in Waltham Cross, a short distance from Halsey Hall. The lodge was consecrated on 2nd October 1950.

 

The Eleanor crosses were a series of twelve lavishly decorated stone monuments topped with tall crosses of which three survive nearly intact in a line down part of the east of England. King Edward I had the crosses erected between 1291 and 1294 in memory of his wife Eleanor of Castile, marking the nightly resting-places along the route taken when her body was transported to London.