Re: Rosslyn Chapel Offer Up Another Surprise

["Spirit One Email" <laurel@spiritone.com>]

Oh.
    So the pictures that I have were taken before the cement wash was taken
off but now it is gone, at least in this section which allows the color to
be seen.  Is the color we see now the original paint?  It looks very rich
after so long.
Laurel
-----Original Message-----
From: Niven Sinclair <niven@niven.co.uk>
To: sinclair@mids.org <sinclair@mids.org>
Date: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 2:18 AM
Subject: Re: Rosslyn Chapel Offer Up Another Surprise


>At 14:03 10/08/99 -0700, you wrote:
>>I just looked at this angel picture.  Are the carvings really painted
>>different colors?  And the eyes also?  I just checked two books I have and
I
>>can't see any color.  How was this done?  OR why?
>>Laurel
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: wginn@worldnet.att.net <wginn@worldnet.att.net>
>>To: sinclair@mids.org <sinclair@mids.org>
>>Date: Sunday, August 08, 1999 4:09 PM
>>Subject: Rosslyn Chapel Offer Up Another Surprise
>>
>>
>> >Hello,
>> >
>> >I am a new member of the Sinclair Discussion list.  Unlike most members
of
>>the Sinclair family, I have to go back 19  generations to Mary Sinclair to
>>make the connection, the daughter of Prince Henry Sinclair.
>> >
>> >In February of this year, I made my first visit to Rosslyn Chapel.  Like
>>most visitors I took several photographs of the chapel.  Two of the
>>photographs I took were carvings in the sacristy that someone in recent
>>times painted.  One was an angel that, when enlarged, revealed blood-like
>>stains which flowed from what appeared to be a wound to the right side of
>>the angel's forehead.  If you are interested in seeing this photograph,
you
>>are invited to proceed to the following address:
>>http://www.clanbell.org/angel.jpg
>> >
>> >At this point in time, I cannot explain how these stains came about.
The
>>wound that is implied by the flow of the blood-like stains closely
>>corresponds in location to that depicted in the carving of the apprentice.
>>The blood-like stains have gone un-noticed until now, based on information
I
>>have received from people close to Rosslyn Chapel.
>> >
>> >I will keep you posted on the status of this discovery in the futures.
>> >
>> >Ward Ginn
>> >
>> >Yes, Laurel, the carvings in the lower crypt are painted.  It is
believed
>      that all the carvings may have been painted before the Ministry of
Public
>      Buildings and Works universally applied a cement wash to the interior
>of
>
>     the Chapel proper in 1954 with such disastrous results.
>
>      Niven
>
>
>> >
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