rosslyn chapel

Holidays are officially here!! and it started with a shopping trip to livingston on Saturday!!

and on Rosslyn Chapel on Sun (familiar? check out Dan Brown's da vinci code). It was a beautiful warm (10 degrees) sunday morning, but the wind was crazeeee... i could almost feel my feet lift off the ground...weee


Cant see much from the outside because of the metal thingy's that are protecting the chapel as an effort of maintaining the chapel.

too bad no pics allowed inside the chapel. The most beautiful thing about the chapel, is the carvings all over, on the pillar and walls that are absolutely intricate and detailed. There were stories and meaning behind every carving. Here's one for u :)

There is one stunning piece of carving known as the 'Apprentice Pillar". Legend has it that. the Master Mason having received from the Founder a model of a pillar of exquisite workmanship and design, hesitated to carry it out until he had gone to Rome or some other foreign part to see the original. He went abroad and and in his absence an apprentice, having dreamt that he had finished the pillar, at once set to work and carried out the design as it now stands, a perfect marvel of workmanship.

The Master Mason on his return, seeing the pillar completed, instead of being delighted at the success of his pupil, was so stung with envy that he asked who dared to do it in his absence. On being told that it was his apprentice, he was so inflamed with rage and passion that he struck him with a mallet, killed him onthe spot and paid the penalty for his rash and cruel act.

This is the apprentice.. If u look closely, you can see a lil scar on his forehead (where the mallet struck him)

Below is the master mason, who sits opposite the apprentice head, his eyes open, eternally staring at the direction of the apprentice pillar.

Such a humour, these carvers have, dont they? :)