Rosslyn Chapel

Duddinstone late morning for lunch at the Sheep’s Heid Inn, then a walk around Dr Neil’s Garden and the adjacent Jock Tamson’s Gairden which both sit beside Duddinstone Loch.

We then visited the Rosslyn Chapel, built in the 15th century. The sculptural carving inside (photography not allowed) is spectacular, and quite unlike anything else I’ve seen. Visitor numbers exploded after the publication of Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code and then even more so with the film starring Tom Hanks (both unfamiliar to me). Externally it’s a very odd building. The Chapel took 40 years to complete, and was originally envisioned as the chancel of a much bigger cathedral scale building. That accounts for its oddly truncated and unfinished external appearance, which gives no real clue to its glorious interior.