Pillars On History Visit To Rosslyn Chapel By Roslin Near Edinburgh Scotland

Tour Scotland short travel video clip, with Scottish music, of Pillars on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to Rosslyn Chapel near Edinburgh. The chapel was founded by William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness of the Sinclair family, a noble family descended in part from Norman knights from the commune of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte in northern France. Over the years the chapel has featured in speculative theories regarding Freemasonry and the Knights Templar. 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 named, from north to south: the Master Pillar, the Journeyman Pillar and, most famously, the Apprentice Pillar. These names for the pillars date from the late Georgian period, prior to this period they were called the Earl's Pillar, the Shekinah and the Prince's Pillar. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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