Arm of a chair.

I stopped by St Giles cathedral today and spent some time making a couple of sketches of the wood carvings in the Thistle chapel. Whilst I was there one of the volunteers was volunteering information about the history and use of the chapel.

Apparently the Scottish Order of the Thistle is second only to the English Order of the Garter.
Women were excluded until the 1980s.
There are only sixteen members and for a new member to be named an old member has to die.
When someone dies there is a period of mourning and then the next St Andrew's day the successor is announced and in the following July a ceremony to welcome them to the club is held in the chapel, conducted by the Queen.
The Order was established in the 1600s, but the chapel was not build till the 1900s, but in the architectural style of the 1500s to fit in with the rest of the cathedral.

There was an oak chair in the corner, and I could see the carving, but the light was not good enough for me to do any drawing, so I broke the rules and photographed it.

Isn't the work exquisite?