Rosslyn Chapel is part of a larger complex. "In 1446 William St Clair founded the Chapel to spread intellectual and spiritual knowledge" ... Oliver Cromwell's troops sacked the Chapel in 1650. "Excavations in the 1800s uncovered foundations stretching a further 30 metres beyond the west end of the Chapel". Conservation work was undertaken in the 1950s. The Chapel was made famous as a source of the Da Vinci Code in the popular Dan Brown novel of the same name.Historically significant building with many connections to stonemasonry. The apprentice column is a magnificently carved post inside the Chapel.Folding pamphlet with colour illustrations, plan and history of Rosslyn.chapel, rosslyn, rosslyn chapel, scotland, freemasons, knight templars, st clair, gargoyles, mason's marks, mason, stonemason