Rosslyn Chapel Revealed

ROSSLYN CHAPEL REVEALED offers the reader an increased understanding and respect for one of Europe’s finest pre-Reformation buildings.

Michael Fass, lately priest-in-charge at Rosslyn Chapel, describes the ‘deep longings for meaning, for peace and for comfort which visitors express in the prayer requests that they leave with us.’ Rosslyn Chapel, with its foundations in the world of Nature, still points bravely to the heavens.

ROSSLYN CHAPEL REVEALED provides rational grounds for supporting such profoundly spiritual expectations, based on the best available historical and archaeological finding.
That there is mystery at Rosslyn Chapel, there can be no doubt. But it is not the mystery of the Gnostic variety available only to the initiated few. Instead, it is knowledge, accessible to all, of the dynamic intertwining of the created world with the impulse towards self-fulfilment.

ROSSLYN CHAPEL REVEALED will show that the chapel is first and foremost a Christian building, constructed in the traditions of the pre-Reformation Church for the celebration in word, gesture and music of the Divine Office and of the supreme sacrifice of Jesus Christ offered on his Cross for the salvation of the human race.

The stunning beauty of the Chapel, its unexpected delicacy and the uninhibited humour of its stone carvings, which have drawn visitors in such avid numbers from all over the planet, are a tribute to the honesty and validity of the religious experience to be found within its ancient walls, in a breath-taking setting of valley and river that is older than time .