Rosslyn Chapel in its Scottish Ecclesiastical and Historical Context

A large number of popular writers incorporate Rosslyn Chapel, Freemasonry, the Sinclair family and the Knights Templar in their various writings on this subject. In doing so they deal with Rosslyn Chapel in isolation and in the process ascribe various Masonic interpretations to it and the numerous carvings which it contains.

This presentation intends to place the chapel in its wider historical and ecclesiastical context in an effort to determine the accuracy, or otherwise, of the numerous claims for a Masonic and/or Knights Templar connection.

Drawing on documents held in the Grand Lodge of Scotland Museum and Library the author will compare and contrast these claims with such documentary evidence which is, for some unknown reason, not considered by popular writers when advancing their own particular hypotheses.