Location from Work in Progress by Kat Mackenzie
A medieval chapel covered in mysterious carvings — the kind of place that makes conspiracy theorists and romantics equally breathless.
Rosslyn Chapel is where the tour gets its first real sense of awe. The carvings are overwhelming — hundreds of individual figures and patterns crammed into a space no bigger than a large living room. The acoustics are strange and beautiful. Every guide tells a different story about what the symbols mean, and Robbie's version involves just enough personal opinion to be charming. It's a stop that makes the elderly women quiet and Alice reach for her camera. The chapel doesn't care about your emotional state; it's been making people feel things for six hundred years and it's very good at its job.
Small and impossibly detailed — every inch of stone carved with Green Men, angels, flowers, and symbols that have been argued about for centuries. The Apprentice Pillar spirals upward with intricate stonework. Light filters through narrow windows onto surfaces so heavily decorated they seem to move. Moss grows on the exterior walls like the building is being slowly reclaimed by the landscape.
Also known as: Rosslyn, The Chapel