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Cabbell Lodge No.807

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Meeting Place: 47 St. Giles' Street. Norwich, NR2 1JR

Secretary: B. A. Nestor, 45 Mansfield Lane, Norwich, NR1 2JT

Tel: 01603 449677

E-mail: cabbell.807@ntlworld.com

Almoner: S. G. Moore, Valley Farm, Horstead Lane, Frettenham, Norwich, NR12 7LD

Tel: 01603 737303

E-mail: sgm@hotmail.co.uk

About us
The warrant of February, 1860, in the name of the Grand Lodge of England, consisting ‘a Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons under the title of the Cabbell Lodge No. 1109 to meet at the Star Inn, St. Peter of Mancroft.’ The Thursday meeting was convenient for business people and has been retained ever since. The consecration took place on Thursday April 19^th, 1860 which places it fourth chronologically of the surviving Norwich Masonic Lodges, and there are in fact only eight remaining older Lodges in the whole of the Province of Norfolk. Cabbell was the first of these to be named after an individual. He was Benjamin Bond Cabbell, FRS, FSA, of Cromer Hall, the tenth Provincial Grand Master for Norfolk, appointed in 1854, a Past Master of Lodge of Antiquity, No. 2 – one of the ‘red apron’ Lodges – and Junior Grand Warden (Grand Lodge) in 1828. During his Provincial Grand Mastership six new Lodges were founded, three of them on Norwich (Cabbell, 1860; Sincerity, 1863; Walpole, 1874). Already 79 when Cabbell Lodge was consecrated, the ProvGM was unable to be present at the ceremony, but he signified his interest by subsequently contributing over sixty pounds to the three Masonic Charities in the name of Cabbell Lodge, whose Worshipful Master has therefore votes in perpetuity in each of them. Bro Bond Cabbell, whose portrait in oils by Henry O’Neil, RA, hangs in the Le Strange Temple of the Norwich Masonic Hall, was educated at Westminster, and Exeter College, Oxford, and later became a bencher of the Middle Temple, and a J.P. and D.L. both of Middlesex and Norfolk. He was M.P. for St. Alban’s, 1864-7, and for Boston from 1847 to 1857, but his main interests were scientific rather than legal or political, and though in 1848 he petitioned in favour of a Bill removing the disabilities on Jews entering Parliament and spoke against the window duties which encouraged builders to provide dark and gloomy houses, little was heard of him in Parliament in his later years. He purchased Cromer Hall estate for £65,000 in1852, served as High Sheriff of Norfolk on 1854, and presented to Cromer in 1868 a fully equipped lifeboat, as well as contributing handsomely to the restoration of the parish church. He lived until the age of 93, and died on 9^th December 1874, being buried at Marylebone. A replica of his coat of arms is still carried on the Cabbell Lodge Summons.