Re: Rosslyn Chapel Offer Up Another Surprise

[Niven Sinclair <niven@niven.co.uk>]

At 14:03 10/08/99 -0700, you wrote:
>I just looked at this angel picture.  Are the carvings really painted
>different colors?  And the eyes also?  I just checked two books I have and I
>can't see any color.  How was this done?  OR why?
>Laurel
>-----Original Message-----
>From: wginn@worldnet.att.net <wginn@worldnet.att.net>
>To: sinclair@mids.org <sinclair@mids.org>
>Date: Sunday, August 08, 1999 4:09 PM
>Subject: Rosslyn Chapel Offer Up Another Surprise
>
>
> >Hello,
> >
> >I am a new member of the Sinclair Discussion list.  Unlike most members of
>the Sinclair family, I have to go back 19  generations to Mary Sinclair to
>make the connection, the daughter of Prince Henry Sinclair.
> >
> >In February of this year, I made my first visit to Rosslyn Chapel.  Like
>most visitors I took several photographs of the chapel.  Two of the
>photographs I took were carvings in the sacristy that someone in recent
>times painted.  One was an angel that, when enlarged, revealed blood-like
>stains which flowed from what appeared to be a wound to the right side of
>the angel's forehead.  If you are interested in seeing this photograph, you
>are invited to proceed to the following address:
>http://www.clanbell.org/angel.jpg
> >
> >At this point in time, I cannot explain how these stains came about.  The
>wound that is implied by the flow of the blood-like stains closely
>corresponds in location to that depicted in the carving of the apprentice.
>The blood-like stains have gone un-noticed until now, based on information I
>have received from people close to Rosslyn Chapel.
> >
> >I will keep you posted on the status of this discovery in the futures.
> >
> >Ward Ginn
> >
> >Yes, Laurel, the carvings in the lower crypt are painted.  It is believed
      that all the carvings may have been painted before the Ministry of Public
      Buildings and Works universally applied a cement wash to the interior 
of 

     the Chapel proper in 1954 with such disastrous results.

      Niven


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