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Matinee: 'Rosslyn Chapel'
1 November 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
So we're pleased to present the 628th in our series of Saturday matinees today: Rosslyn Chapel.
Dan Frydman put this two-minute video of stills together of the Penicuik Photography Club's photographs of Rosslyn Chapel. Tim Janis did the music.
Penicuik (pronounced Pennycook) is a town in Midlothian, Scotland, on the west bank of the River North Esk. Its name means "hill of the cuckoo" in the Old Brythonic language.
Rosslyn Chapel, seven miles south of Edinburgh, was founded in 1446 by Sir William St. Clair. "The beauty of its setting, in rural Midlothian, the mysterious symbolism of its ornate stonework and its role in the Da Vinci Code have inspired, attracted and intrigued writers, artists and visitors ever since," its Web site notes.
But in an older Frydman video on the chapel, we learned its Medieval design incorporated beehives in the roof:
A couple of years ago, the Chapel reintroduced bees with four new hives that children from the local primary school's Eco Committee named. Fortunately for the kids, the new hives were not installed on the roof.