The south front of Rosslyn Chapel (from R.W. Billings, The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland, 1909)
The west front of Rosslyn Chapel prior to the Victorian repairs and the addition of the baptistery (from R.W. Billings, The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland, 1909)
The eastern aisle (from R.W. Billings, The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland, 1909)
The north aisle (from R.W. Billings, The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland, 1909)
Rosslyn Chapel from the east (copyright © Antonia Reeve)
Rosslyn Chapel from the south (copyright © Antonia Reeve)
An idealised image of Robert Burns and Alexander Nasmyth below the arch of the drawbridge of Rosslyn Castle (James Nasmyth. Reproduced by permission of The Royal Scottish Academy)
The choir. Note the empty plinths. Prior to the Reformation, these contained statues of the saints (copyright © Dan Welldon)
Looking through from the baptistery towards the choir. The stained glass windows (dating from 1896) above the altar depict the resurrection (copyright © Dan Welldon)
The south aisle. The carving at the top of this picture represents the Seven Virtues (copyright © Dan Welldon)
The chapel ceiling is divided into five sections featuring daisies, lilies, flowers opening to the sun, roses and stars (copyright © Dan Welldon)
The elegant coil of the Apprentice Pillar. It has been claimed that it shows the double helix of DNA (copyright © Dan Welldon)
A fierce face of the Green Man, one of more than a hundred versions based on the same theme (copyright © Dan Welldon)
The top half of the Mason’s Pillar. Pre-Victorian images of this column show the centrepiece as undecorated (copyright © Roddy Martine)
The central carving on the Mason’s Pillar depicts an angel playing bagpipes (copyright © Roddy Martine)
On the footpath through Roslin Glen, high above the River North Esk, is an outcrop of rock known as the ‘Lover’s Leap.’ Carved into the lower portion is a face; some say that it is that of a monkey; others say that it is a fish (copyright © Roddy Martine)
The remains of the 16th-century Hospitallers of St John chapel at Balantrodoch, below the village of Temple, ten miles from Roslin village. It sits on the foundations of the one-time Preceptory of the Knights Templar, and some of the stones from the original building were used in the construction of the north wall (copyright © Roddy Martine)
The entrance to Wallace’s Cave in the cliffs of Gorton, seen through trees from the opposite river bank of the North Esk (copyright © Roddy Martine)
Rosslyn Castle rises spectacularly above the river gorge of Roslin Glen. In the background, the Pentland Hills (copyright © Roddy Martine)
Rosslyn Castle from the glen, c. 1830 (Revd John Thomson of Duddingston. Reproduced by permission of the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow)