Rosslyn Chapel
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The Mystery
What is it that brings so many people to this out-of-the-way chapel? Not only is Rosslyn Chapel (or, to give it its official title, the Collegiate Church of St Matthew) a stunning example of late medieval architecture and the stonemason’s art, but it contains many clues that it is more than just a place of worship – and even that it was never intended to be simple a Christian church.
History of Rosslyn Chapel
The mastermind behind the project was Sir William St Clair, known as 'Prodigus', 3rd Prince of Orkney. Sir William was the grandson of Prince Henry St. Clair of Orkney, known as 'the Navigator', who many believe led an expedition to America a hundred years before Columbus's 'discovery' of the New World.
The Mystery of the Carvings
Although ostensibly, like other collegiate churches, Rosslyn Chapel was intended as a place of Christian learning, there is much to suggest that Sir William St Clair's intentions were, to say the least, unorthodox.
Knights Templar & Masons
Rosslyn Chapel is seen by many as the 'missing link' that demonstrates continuity between the Knights Templars and the Freemasons.
The St. Clairs of Rosslyn
A brief history of the Chapel builder's family; the St Clairs (modern day Sinclairs)
What lies beneath Rosslyn Chapel?
It has long been speculated that the chapel was designed to hide something of great importance - a treasure or sacred object. There are legends of treasure attached to Rosslyn Castle and some believe that it is the treasure of the Templars that Philip IV of France failed to seize when he suppressed the Order in 1307.
Rosslyn Chapel & the Thule Society
On 9 May 1930 Dr Karl Hans Fuchs, a former member of the Thule Society - the occult/mystical group that flourished in Munich in the early 1920s and which was closely associated with the origins of the Nazi Party - visited Rosslyn Chapel. While visiting the Edinburgh Theosophical Society, Fuchs informed the members that he had been sent to Scotland.
Related Locations
According to local tradition, treasure worth 'several million pounds' is buried beneath the castle vaults, and is guarded by one of the St Clair ladies, who, like sleeping beauty, sleeps through the centuries. If she can somehow be awakened, she will point to the place where the treasure is buried, and when this happens Rosslyn Castle will rise from its ruins.
Rosslyn Chapel Today
Today Rosslyn Chapel, still a place of worship and in great demand for weddings, is an important tourist attraction, receiving around 25,000 visitors a year. Although it is currently undergoing major restoration work, the site remains important to both Freemasons and modern-day Knights Templar alike.
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The Mystery
History of Rosslyn Chapel
The Carvings
Rosslyn Chapel, Templars & Masons
The St Clairs of Rosslyn
What Lies Beneath Rosslyn Chapel?
Rosslyn Chapel & The Thule Society
Related Locations
Rosslyn Today
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The Mystery
It is where the modern Knights Templar and the Freemasons meet, where researchers pour over every carving and niche, and where tourists flock to stand in awe before this extraordinary Gothic building. A few miles south of the city of Edinburgh, and half a mile from the small village of Roslin, Rosslyn Chapel, built in the second half of the 15th century, maintains its age-old mystery.
What is it that brings so many people to this out-of-the-way chapel? Not only is Rosslyn Chapel (or, to give it its official title, the Collegiate Church of St Matthew) a stunning example of late medieval architecture and the stonemason's art, but it contains many clues that it is more than just a place of worship - and even that it was never intended to be simply a Christian church...
Topping a ridge above the ancient woodland of Roslin Glen and the valley of the Esk, the chapel itself is believed to be only the first stage of a much greater project, as the side chapel of a larger church. In the event, whether by accident or design, only the chapel itself was ever completed.
This small building has the capacity to inspire jaw-dropping awe. Its architecture is unique. Although essentially Gothic, it reveals influences not only of its native land, but also - thought-provokingly - of far-flung and often (then) exotic countries, such as France, Spain and Italy. The clear influence of southern French and northern Spanish architecture suggests - although it is not known where the vast workforce required for such a project came from - that at least some them originated from around the Pyrenees. The mixture of styles suggests that the workforce was drawn from a much wider area.
Like all Gothic structures, the chapel was constructed according to the rules and practices of sacred geometry, fusing the arcane and occult with Christian and biblical imagery. But it is the mass of stone carvings that adorn virtually every square inch of the interior that holds such sway over the imagination of visitors and compels so many to return time and time again to marvel at the building. Not only are there the expected scenes from the Old and New Testaments, but images