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714:) the name morphed over time due to a legend dating from the 18th century, involving the master mason in charge of the stonework in the chapel and his young apprentice mason. According to the legend, the master mason did not believe that the apprentice could perform the complicated task of carving the column without seeing the original which formed the inspiration for the design. The master mason travelled to see the original himself, but upon his return was enraged to find that the upstart apprentice had completed the column by himself. In a fit of jealous anger, the master mason took his mallet and struck the apprentice on the head, killing him. The legend concludes that as punishment for his crime, the master mason's face was carved into the opposite corner to forever gaze upon his apprentice's pillar. 583: 31: 47: 403: 1021: 795: 703: 810: 1162: 833:, a plant which was unknown in Europe at the time of the chapel's construction. In their book they discuss meeting with the wife of botanist Adrian Dyer, and that Dyer's wife told him that Dyer agreed that the image thought to be maize was accurate. In fact, Dyer found only one identifiable plant among the botanical carvings and suggested that the "maize" and "aloe" were stylised wooden patterns, only coincidentally looking like real plants. 1017:(in line south to north with the so-called Apprentice Pillar) represented the Fellow of Craft degree (middle pillar) and the Master Mason's degree (north pillar). This association of three pillars in the east part of Rosslyn Chapel with the three degrees of Scottish Freemasonry is impossible, given the fact that (according to Cooper) the third degree of Freemasonry was invented c.1720 - almost 300 years after Rosslyn Chapel was founded. 1148: 640: 532: 54: 1046:
configuration. The similarity between Rosslyn Chapel and Glasgow's East Quire is well established. Andrew Kemp noted that 'the entire plan of this Chapel corresponds to a large extent with the choir of Glasgow Cathedral' as far back as 1877 in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries. Many alternative history writers are well aware of this but fail to mention it in their books.
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and the organ. A steel canopy was erected over the chapel roof for fourteen years. This was to prevent further rain damage to the church and also to give it a chance to dry out properly. Three human skeletons were found during the restoration. Major stonework repairs were completed by the end of 2011. The last major scaffolding was removed in August 2010.
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The Rosslyn Chapel Trust was established in 1995, with the purpose of overseeing its conservation and its opening as a sightseeing destination. The chapel underwent an extensive programme of conservation between 1997 and 2013. This included work to the roof, the stone, the carvings, the stained glass
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imagery, such as the way that hands are placed in various figures. One carving may show a blindfolded man being led forward with a noose around his neck. The carving has been eroded by time and pollution and is difficult to make out clearly. The chapel was built in the 15th century, and the earliest
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Among Rosslyn's many intricate carvings are a sequence of 213 cubes or "boxes" protruding from pillars and arches with a selection of patterns on them. It is unknown if these patterns have any particular meaning attached to them. Many people have attempted to find information coded into them, but no
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The chapel stands on fourteen pillars, which form an arcade of twelve pointed arches on three sides of the nave. At the east end, a fourteenth pillar between the penultimate pair form a three-pillared division between the nave and the Lady chapel. The three pillars at the east end of the chapel are
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As to a possible connection between the St. Clairs and the Knights Templar, the family testified against the Templars when that Order was put on trial in Edinburgh in 1309. Historian Dr. Louise Yeoman, along with other medieval scholars, says the Knights Templar connection is false, and points out
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Cooper further debunks other claims of a connection between carvings within Rosslyn Chapel and Scottish Freemasonry. The suggestion that the Apprentice Pillar is a physical reference to the Entered Apprentice degree of Scottish Freemasonry logically led to the conclusion that the other two pillars
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for all the faithful departed, including the deceased members of the Sinclair family. During this period, the rich heritage of plainsong (a single melodic line) or polyphony (vocal harmony) were used to enrich the singing of the liturgy. Sinclair provided an endowment to pay for the support of the
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you will find a startling match: the four walls of both buildings fit precisely. The East Quire of Glasgow is larger than Rosslyn, but the designs of these two medieval Scottish buildings are virtually identical. They both have the same number of windows and the same number of pillars in the same
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Rosslyn Chapel bears no more resemblance to Solomon's or Herod's Temple than a house brick does to a paperback book. If you superimpose the floor plans of Rosslyn Chapel and either Solomon's or Herod's Temple, you will actually find that they are not even remotely similar. Writers admit that the
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A new visitor centre opened in July 2011. The chapel's stained-glass windows and organ were fully restored. New lighting and heating were installed. The expected cost of the restoration work is around £13 million, with about £3.7 million being spent on the Visitor Centre. Funding has come from
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The pinnacles on the rooftop have been subject to interest during renovation work in 2010. Nesting jackdaws had made the pinnacles unstable and as such had to be dismantled brick by brick revealing the existence of a chamber specifically made by the stonemasons to harbour bees. The hive, now
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The chapel has been a burial place for several generations of the Sinclairs; a crypt was once accessible from a descending stair at the rear of the chapel. This crypt has been sealed shut for many years, which may explain the recurrent legends that it is merely a front to a more extensive
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chapel is far smaller than either of the temples. They freely scale the plans up or down in an attempt to fit them together. What they actually find are no significant similarities at all. If you superimpose the floor plans of Rosslyn Chapel and the East Quire of
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In 1837, when the 2nd Earl of Rosslyn died, his wish was to be buried in the original vault. Exhaustive searches over the period of a week were made, but no entrance to the original vault was found and he was buried beside his wife in the Lady Chapel.
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references to Hiram Abiff in Masonic ritual, and in the process he debunks any similarities between the two. A minute comparison between the Rosslyn Myth and the Masonic allegory can be found in a detailed tabular form in The Rosslyn Hoax?
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Construction of the chapel began on 20 September 1456, although it has often been recorded as 1446. The confusion over the building date comes from the chapel's receiving its founding charter to build a collegiate chapel in 1446 from Rome.
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3rd Earl of Orkney, Baron of Roslin and 1st Earl of Caithness, claimed by novelists to be a hereditary Grand Master of the Scottish stonemasons, built Rosslyn Chapel. A later William Sinclair of Roslin became the first Grand Master of the
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The original plans for Rosslyn have never been found or recorded, so it is open to speculation whether or not the chapel was intended to be built in its current layout. Its architecture is considered to be among the finest in Scotland.
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records of freemasonic lodges date back only to the late 16th and early 17th centuries. A more likely explanation, however, is that the Masonic imagery was added at a later date. This may have taken place in the 1860s when
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was complicit in reinforcing opposition to women's suffrage. Between 1913 and 1914, 32 churches were attacked nationwide. In the weeks leading up to the attack, there were also bombings at
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website: "There has been so much nonsense published about Rosslyn Chapel over the last 15 years or so that it is now extremely difficult to know what is nonsense and what is accurate."
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becomes caught up in an old vendetta between two Scottish clans during a visit to Scotland, this mystery including the discovery of an ancient treasure trove hidden in Rosslyn.
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in which he actively debunks this type of speculation at length and in great detail. An example is the comparison of the Rosslyn myth of the Apprentice Pillar with that of the
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One recent attempt to make sense of the boxes has been to interpret them as a musical score. The motifs on the boxes somewhat resemble geometric patterns seen in the study of
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The chapel, built 150 years after the dissolution of the Knights Templar, supposedly has many Templar symbols, such as the "Two riders on a single horse" that appear on the
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One of the more notable architectural features of the chapel is the "Apprentice Pillar, or "Prentice Pillar". Originally called the "Prince's Pillar" (in the 1778 document
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In the financial year of 2013–14, Rosslyn Chapel recorded 144,823 visitors, the highest number since 2007–08, when (at the height of popular interest induced by
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interpretation has yet proven conclusive. Unfortunately, many of these 'boxes' are not original, having been replaced in the 19th century after erosion damage.
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of 1912–1914, in which suffragettes carried out a series of politically motivated bombing and arson attacks nationwide as part of their campaign for
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Photography and video have been forbidden in the chapel since 2008. The chapel sells commercially produced photos in its shop. In 2006, historian
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with the intention of countering the "nonsense published about Rosslyn Chapel over the last 15 years or so". Cooper in 2006 also published
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stretching to a distance of 90 feet were recorded in the 19th century. Construction of the planned nave and transepts was abandoned.
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Robert L. D. Cooper, curator of the Grand Lodge of Scotland Museum and Library, in 2003 published a 12th edition of the 1892
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Forbes, Robert An Account of the Chapel of Roslin. (reprint ed. Cooper, Robert L. D., Grand Lodge of Scotland, 2000.
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named, from north to south: the Master Pillar, the Journeyman Pillar and, most famously, the Apprentice Pillar.
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Since the late 1980s, the chapel has been the subject of speculative theories concerning a connection with the
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The author Henning Klovekorn has proposed that the pillar is representative of one of the roots of the Nordic
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in 1560, Catholic worship in the chapel was brought to an end. The chapel's altars were destroyed in 1592.
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that Rosslyn Chapel was built by William Sinclair so that Mass could be said for the souls of his family.
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Other carvings represent plants, including depictions of wheat, strawberries or lilies. The authors
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and the second (whose crumbling buttresses can still be seen today) in what is now Roslin Cemetery.
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Woman's Effort: A Chronicle of British Women's Fifty Years' Struggle for Citizenship (1865-1914)
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with musical notes corresponding to the same frequencies, the father-and-son team of Thomas and
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Secrets of the Code: The Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind the Da Vinci Code, p. 248
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of the Apprentice Pillar and the adjacent bay of the chapel was made in 1871, and is in the
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attack on 11 July 1914, when a bomb exploded inside the building. This was as part of the
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and, subsequently, several other members of the Sinclair family have held this position.
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Alternative histories involving Rosslyn Chapel and the Sinclairs have been published by
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The chapel became the subject of speculation regarding its supposed connection with the
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have hypothesised that some carvings in the chapel represent ears of new world corn or
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Secret Places, Hidden Sanctuaries Uncovering Mysterious Sites, Symbols, and Societies
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Turnbull, Michael, 'Rosslyn Chapel Revealed' (Sutton Publishing Ltd., November 2007)
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Forte est vinum fortior est rex fortiores sunt mulieres super omnia vincit veritas
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Rex Deus: The True Mystery of Rennes-le-Château and the Dynasty of Jesus (2000)
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criticised the Rosslyn Chapel trust for "cashing in" on the popularity of
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In 1842 the chapel, then in a ruined and overgrown state, was visited by
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The Illustrated Guide to Rosslyn Chapel and Castle, Hawthornden &c.
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Dictionnaire Raisonné de l’Architecture Française du XIe au XVIe siècle
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beginning in the 1980s. This part of its history was referenced in the
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Rosslyn Chapel (Episcopal), formerly Collegiate Church of St Matthew,
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that introduced the theory of the Jesus bloodline in relation to the
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The Abbey of S. Mary, Newbottle: a memorial of the royal visit, 1907
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QuickTime Virtual Reality Image of Rosslyn Chapel by Jonathan Greet
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An interior view showing the Apprentice Pillar and ornate carvings.
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has been analysed by Mark Oxbrow and Ian Robertson in their book,
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subterranean vault containing (variously) the mummified head of
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Historical and descriptive account of Rosslyn Chapel and castle
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Rosslyn Chapel Decoded: New Interpretations of a Gothic Enigma
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It is also claimed that other carvings in the chapel reflect
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in 1560, it was largely abandoned but, following a visit by
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In 1590, the Presbytery forbade George Ramsay, Minister of
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The claim that the layout of Rosslyn Chapel echoes that of
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abandoned, has been sent to local bee keepers to identify.
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Rosslyn Chapel's extraordinary carvings explained at last
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Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry Hardcover
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The Suffragette Bombers: Britain's Forgotten Terrorists
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and was founded on a small hill above Roslin Glen as a
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Custodians of the Truth: The Continuance of Rex Deus
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throughout the day and night, and also to celebrate
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Donaldson's Guide to Rosslyn Chapel published 1862.
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The Head of God – The Lost Treasure of the Templars
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Rosslyn: Guardians of the Secrets of the Holy Grail
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Rosslyn Chapel is located in Midlothian
55°51′19″N 3°09′37″W / 55.85528°N 3.16028°W / 55.85528; -3.16028
OS grid reference
NT275630
Roslin
Midlothian
Scotland
Denomination
Scottish Episcopal Church
Catholic Church
www.rosslynchapel.com
Dedication
Saint Matthew
Category A
Groundbreaking
Diocese
Edinburgh
Priest in charge
Listed Building
Episcopal
Roslin
Midlothian
William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness
Scottish Reformation
Queen Victoria
suffragette bombing and arson campaign
Knights Templar
Holy Grail
Freemasonry

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