A £7m overhaul for Da Vinci Code chapel

Posted by Dave From Barra, Western Isles

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:39:40 GMT

It's the Rosslyn Chapel, not "Da Vinci Chapel" muppets! Has stood there for a lot longer than some sh*t film from Hollywood.

Posted by Nick Nick

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:01:27 GMT

#6 Don't think so. The funding gap between the £7.2m grant and the £13m total project cost still has to be found.

Posted by Scaramouche2, A Free Man!!

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 09:24:54 GMT

Maybe they'll reduce their totally rip-off admission charges (£7 a head) to pre-movie prices now??

Posted by karenbryan, berwick upon tweed

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:47:57 GMT

I'm happy to read that the metal roof may be replaced by a wooden roof. I saw the exterior of the chapel for the first time last weekend and was rather dismayed by the metal roof. As I drove through Roslin Glen I wondered what I saw in the distance. I thought it probably was the chapel but it looked more like a modern warehouse.
http://www.europealacarte.co.uk/blog/?p=263

Posted by Jay Kay, Dunfermline

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:40:00 GMT

The carvings and ornate stonework in this building are fantastic and I would challenge any modern day builder to produce work of the same callibur. I couldn't see it somehow.

However, the building would benefit from expert advice from todays building sciences. Modern materials and practices could be employed to preserve the building in its entirity and it might be worth those who look after the building, to contact specialist at Napier university school of Engineering and the Built Environment.http://www.napier.ac.uk/sebe/

Posted by Professor22, Fife

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 07:49:33 GMT

It will be good to see the Chapel without the metal roof again.

Although the metal walkway gives the public the option to see parts of the Chapel that was never really investigated before.

http://www.scottishknightstemplar.org/

Posted by Androsthenes, Edinburgh

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 01:36:10 GMT

So Rosslyn Chapel is now the 'da Vinci code' chapel.
How humiliating......

Posted by MarkInAlpine, Alpine, Texas

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:38:54 GMT

In Arizona, an eighteenth century church constructed of Adobe, was misguidedly "preserved" by the application of Portland cement to the rooftop and exterior walls. Even in their arid climate, the retention of moisture, from worshippers breath and burning of candles, started causing the building fabric to start crumbling, with interior frescoes and statuary swelling and splitting.
They found local artisans who still used the traditional construction methods, and began correcting the errors by removing the cement and going back to a top coat of adobe mud made in part with prickly pear cactus pulp.