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Ardingly College Lodge No 4410
This is the official web site of the
Ardingly College Lodge, and you are welcome here.
You may have come to these pages because you are interested in finding
out something about Freemasonry, or about the school, or about our
lodge in particular. Or you may have come here by chance.
Whatever the reason, please use the links and look around.
- Ardingly College
is an English public school at Ardingly, in
Sussex. It was founded in 1858 by Nathaniel Woodard, a Victorian
with a drive to improve educational opportunity, and a brilliant
fund-raiser. Woodard established Ardingly as St Saviour's
College,
after Lancing and Hurstpierpoint.
- Freemasonry is
an ancient institution organised into something recognisably like its
present form during
the English Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, with aspects of a
charitable organisation, a spirit of enquiry and truth, and a social meeting place for men of like
interests. English Freemasonry is supervised
by the United Grand Lodge of England. Corresponding Grand Lodges
exist in many other countries. Freemasons meet periodically in
the thousands of private lodges existing under the UGLE.
- In 1923 the then
Headmaster of Ardingly College, together with other
masters and the Provost of the school, the Bishop of Lewes, set up a
new private lodge under the UGLE for Masons having a connexion with the
school. We are that Lodge. We are open to Old Ardinians,
school staff, parents of pupils and of OAs, and any other friend of
Ardingly College who is, or wishes to become, a Mason, with some
restrictions - regular Freemasonry is only open to men of good
character.
On these pages you
will find more information about who we are, what we
do, where and when we meet, our history, other
Masonic organisations of the Woodard schools, how to contact us, and links to external web pages of the School and of
Masonry. |