11. Some of the Carvings Suggest a Connection to the Knights Templar
Conspiracy theorists and even some historians have long believed that the Knights Templar were connected to the founding of Rosslyn Chapel, and some of the carvings suggest that they may actually be correct. Some of the sculptures seem to be explicit depictions of a Knights Templar shield, with a giant cross spanning its height and width. Particularly of interest is that though the chapel was completed years before Columbus made his first voyage to the Americas, there are carvings of maize and corn; maize and corn only grew in the Americas at that time.
Some theories suggest that in the fourteenth century, a hundred years, before the building of Rosslyn Chapel, the Knights Templar may have sailed to what is now Canada, where they may have encountered Native Americans who grew corn. If this theory is correct, then some of them may have brought corn to Scotland, where other former members of the Knights Templar lived. Other theorists suggest that the carvings are not actually of maize and corn but resemble them to people who are so used to these commodities, but the story of the Knights Templar’s connection with the chapel is too good to pass up.