Construction of the Rosslyn chapel in Scotland began in 1456 around 150 years after the dissolution of the Knights Templar. It supposedly has many Templar symbols, such as the "Two riders on a single horse" that appear on the Seal of the Knights Templar. It 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...
more »Construction of the Rosslyn chapel in Scotland began in 1456 around 150 years after the dissolution of the Knights Templar. It supposedly has many Templar symbols, such as the "Two riders on a single horse" that appear on the Seal of the Knights Templar. It 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 named, from north to south: the Master Pillar, the Journeyman Pillar, and most famously, the Apprentice Pillar which gets its name from an 18th century legend involving the master mason in charge of the stonework in the chapel who murdered his young apprentice in a fit of jealous rage. Much interest was focused on Chapel after it was used as a location for Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code"
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