Watch our Rosslyn Chapel videos

Published on Monday 24 April 2006 07:26

SCOTSMAN.COM are delighted to offer you an insight into Rosslyn Chapel. If you've read the book, intend seeing The Da Vinci Code in the cinema or you just want to find out what all the fuss is about, then these podcasts are for you.

Let Heritage & Culture lead you down the aisle of this extraordinary chapel and explore the myths and mysteries associated with it. You can view these features on your iPod or on your personal computer.Day One: a stone enigma - the myths and mysteries of Rosslyn

Day Two: the history

Day Three: the Knights Templar

Day Four: the carvings

Day Five: The Da Vinci Code

For our podcasts we have gathered together a group of experts to help you explore Rosslyn inside and out:

Stuart Beattie: a member of Rosslyn Chapel Trust, and the care and preservation of the building lies in his hands

Mark Oxbrow: the author of Rosslyn and the Grail

Robert Brydon: a Templar historian.

Some of the music you hear on the podcasts was written by composer Stuart Mitchell – who cracked the code of the musical notation embedded in the ceiling in Rosslyn.

If this is your first time to the Heritage & Culture website, produced by scotsman.com in Edinburgh, we say "welcome!". A quick tour of the site and you will see that we offer all things to all people: video archive footage, a history timeline, interactive maps, plus, in our humble opinion, some of the greatest feature writing you will ever find on the web. Just one look at our Myths & Mysteries section and you'll see what we mean!

As part of our coverage we recently offered readers a chance to play the Rosslyn Chapel Quiz. The competition to win a prize is over - sorry! - but you still have a chance to test your knowledge of Rosslyn (How do I get to the chapel on time?) and The Da Vinci Code.

In the spirit of Rosslyn, we also offer an information-filled line-up of new stories for you to enjoy.

Tune into the Da Vinci coda

From St Clair to Sinclair – the family who built Rosslyn

Restoration or dilapidation for our historic buildings

Images of an enigma: Rosslyn Chapel inside and out

Battle of Roslin

Rosslyn Chapel in The Scotsman's 19th century archives

And those stories are just the latest offerings from Heritage & Culture. The site has been publishing features about the chapel, the Knights Templar and a whole lot more for more than a year. Here's a glance at the Top Ten most-read Rosslyn-related features from the site:

1. The many mysteries of Rosslyn Chapel, 20 January 2005

2. The Grail, Jesus's children and Stone Age lasers: Scotland's madder myths, 15 April 2005

3. Rosslyn Chapel's extraordinary carvings explained at last, 13 October 2005

4. In search of the Holy Grail, 7 July 2005

5. Rosslyn, ley lines and the baron knights, 22 September 2005

6. The ship of dreams, 12 May 2005

7. Picture-mystery tour of Rosslyn Chapel, 21 July 2005

8. Knights Templar, 8 February 2005

9. Rosslyn, Templars, Gypsies and the Battle of Bannockburn, 10 November 2005

10. Esoteric secrets, Scottish Freemasonry and the building of the American dream, 20 April 2006

We have even grouped together all stories from Heritage & Culture and our sister newspapers - The Scotsman, Edinburgh Evening News and Scotland on Sunday - into one convenient package:

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You can also receive a feed of Rosslyn Chapel stories as they are published by signing up here.

And subscribe here to receive each future podcast as they are delivered. There are plans to present new audio podcasts in the coming weeks!

We hope you enjoyed the Rosslyn Chapel podcasts, the stories and plan to visit Heritage & Culture again.