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.
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.