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The Bulletin
Fix this text‘The Bulletin,” VoL 68—No. 3535
Fix this textWednesday, November 12, 1947
Fix this textPrice 6d.
Fix this textRegistered at the General Post Office, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia, tot Transmission by Post as a Newspaper,
Fix this textSeppelts
Fix this textPROFUSE CARVINGS ENDOW ROSSLYN’S CHAPEL WITH RARE BEAUTY
Fix this textSOME few miles south of Edinburgh is the Midlothian village
Fix this textof Rosslyn, whose chapel has won great renown for the
Fix this textrichness of its carving. Built in 1446, by the third Earl of Orkney,
Fix this textto be the choir of a collegiate church (which was never com-
Fix this textpleted), this chapel possesses stone carvings of remarkable intri-
Fix this textcacy. Its pillars, architraves, window tracery and vaulted roof
Fix this textportray a bewildering assortment of subjects, outstanding among
Fix this textjyhich are the Seven Acts of Mercy, the Seven Deadly Sins, and
Fix this textthe Dance of Death. One of the most attractive relics seen here
Fix this textis the famous prentice pillar, which owes its name to the story that
Fix this textits carving was executed by ■an apprentice during is mas er ®
Fix this textabsence. Beneath the chapel is a crypt, evidently of earlier date
Fix this textthan the church itself, which legend says was once the residence
Fix this textof a priest. Rosslyn gives) the title of earl to the , • ’
Fix this textClair-Erskine and has also historical associations with the Smcla
Fix this textfamily, on whose lands' Rosslyn Castle was built.
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