Re: Rosslyn Chapel Offer Up Another Surprise

[Janet Thomas <jthomas@cflc.net>]

The cement must have just been taken off because I was there in June and
don't remember any color.

Janet

On 11 Aug 1999, Spirit One Email wrote:

> Oh.
>     So the pictures that I have were taken before the cement wash was taken
> off but now it is gone, at least in this section which allows the color to
> be seen.  Is the color we see now the original paint?  It looks very rich
> after so long.
> Laurel


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Niven Sinclair <niven@niven.co.uk>
> To: sinclair@mids.org <sinclair@mids.org>
> Date: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 2:18 AM
> Subject: Re: Rosslyn Chapel Offer Up Another Surprise
> 
> 
> >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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