Da Vinci Code film profitable for Rosslyn

Posted by Brian the Barbarian., city centre

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:00:30 GMT

It's time they dug it up to find the baby Jesus that lives in a cave with the bald albino.

Posted by Gunga Din

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:45:20 GMT

Timothy - I used to work at the Roslin Institute long ago when it was known as the PRC. At that time , I often used to walk down to the Chapel , enter without a charge , wander around the grounds and near the edge of the glen and would be lucky if I saw one other person.If I did see another , it was usually a local. The castle was still an unrestored ruin way back then !
I had a look at the place last year , and was aghast at what I saw - an extended car and coach park , and the place crawling with tourists. Nice for the coffers , but it must surely be unpleasant for some of the locals.

Posted by TimW1234, Ottawa, Canada

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:52:14 GMT

I hope the increasing popularity of the Rosslyn Chapel does not go the way of the restored (1994) ceiling frescoes of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican city.

It has been reported that lineups to see this miracle of human endeavour in the service of God are a kilometre long and six deep and it takes four hours to get into the place.

Surely all those human exhalations with eventually eat away at the restored ceiling and Last Judgement wall and I sincerely do not know the solution.

Is it a pleasant experience to walk around the Rosslyn Chapel with perhaps hundreds of others, some with crying babes in prams, and the comments of the uninformed and downright ignorant ruining your wonder at this unique and strange place?

Sometimes over-popularity and exposure is the death knell for both people and places and it would be a shame if the Rosslyn Chapel becomes a cynosure of tourist types.

On the other hand, I am happy that funds have been raised to restore the chapel to its glorious and original state.