The publication of Dan Brown’s sensationalist novel about Robert Langdon (a Harvard scholar of religious ‘symbology’) and Sophie Neveu (a French cryptologist) investigating Jesus and Mary Magdalene’s bloodline and the whereabouts of the Holy Grail, The Da Vinci Code (2003), featured Rosslyn prominently. The chapel is owned by a trust administered by the Sinclair (St Clair) family, and in 2000 was in urgent need of repairs. The foundation stone was laid by William Sinclair, Third Earl of Orkney and First Earl of Caithness, in 1446.
Rosslyn Chapel is a small, elaborately decorated fifteenth century church in Roslin village, seven miles south of Edinburgh. The Chapel also received a ‘prestigious Sandford Award for its education work’ and was certified Gold by the Green Tourism Business Scheme in 2016. The Collegiate Chapel of St Matthew, better known as Rosslyn Chapel, was named ‘best attraction’ in the 2015-2016 Scottish Thistle Awards, selected ahead of other tourist attractions including the Wallace Monument, Stirling and Born in the Borders, an artisan brewery and visitor centre in Jedburgh.
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