Rosslyn Chapel, Roslin Glen

Rob MacKillop

Edinburgh Correspondent
Nikon F4, 80mm 1.4 lens, XP2.

Rosslyn Chapel has featured in Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" - book and film - as well as featuring in many revelatory books about the secret sects of the Knights Templar. It's also a place where I recorded a CD of medieval Scottish music, some 17 years ago. Things have changed since then. We recorded in freezing temperatures, with fingerless gloves, and with our breath fogging up the music stand. No one went there in those days. These days there is a steady trickle of tourists all year round, and hundreds of them in the summer. Heating has been installed. I fear for the chapel, which has stood there for six hundred years without interference.

No photography allowed inside the chapel, unfortunately, especially so as it is a stunning place.

The chapel sits in the grounds of what is now Roslin Country Park, with Roslin Glen running through the centre of it. A beautiful place.

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Nice series Rob....any idea why no photography allowed inside...???...is it to do with the secretive nature of those Templar Knights (who I'm sure still exist)....or maybe to prevent flashes going off every few seconds because folks can't work their cameras properly....?
 
Ha, possibly. I think they want to make as much money as possible, and that means control. They sell their own images, and professional photographers and publishers can hire the place at a huge cost. It was free when we used it, but nobody had heard of the Da Vinci Code then...
 
Thanks, Pete. There is something wrong with the development of these images, I think. Not sure what it is, but they are not what I had come to expect from the camera and film combination.
 
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