Our Home · The Isle of Purbeck
Where Ancient
Hills Meet
the Sea
In the heart of the Isle of Purbeck, where Corfe Castle has stood sentinel for a thousand years and the Dorset hills roll quietly to the English Channel, Purbeck Lodge No. 4355 has made its home.
Here, among men shaped by this wild and beautiful landscape, a Brotherhood has met, worked, and endured — carrying ancient values into the present.
Our Heritage · 1916
Born of
Steel &
Brotherhood
Purbeck Lodge No. 4355 traces its origins to the bonds forged between men of the Royal Tank Regiment during the Great War — the first men ever to take armoured steel into battle, at the Somme in September 1916.
Those soldiers who survived returned changed men. They had known something unspoken — the reliance of one on another in absolute extremis. In Freemasonry, they found a ritual language for what they had lived: brotherhood, duty, remembrance.
