Like Rosslyn Chapel, other sites which feature in The Da Vinci Code have experienced a surge in visitor numbers. Principally these are the Louvre Museum in Paris (where the novel begins and ends) and the Temple Church in London. The Louvre is beyond the scope of this web site but we are aware that a guide book on the Templar Church has recently been re-published. For more details click here or on previous links.
Stuart Beattie, the project manager at Rosslyn Chapel, has moved on to new pastures. He is replaced by Colin Glynn-Percy a Scottish landholder with various business interests. In an interview with the Scotsman newspaper he makes some interesting and perhaps prophetic comments about the chapel and its future.
Mr Glynn-Percy has something of a colourful past posing nude for a calendar.
St Duthac Collegiate Church is the most northerly collegiate church on the Scottish mainland. Not very much is know about it but what we have been to find has now been added to this web site. Interestingly it was contemporary with Rosslyn Chapel.
Every two years the Australian and New Zealand Masonic Research Council (ANMRC) invite a Masonic scholar to give a series of lectures to Research Lodges and other Masonic bodies in the southern hemisphere. The ‘touring lecturer’ for 2005 is Robert Cooper, the Curator of the Grand Lodge of Scotland Museum and Library in Edinburgh.
Robert Cooper
A book of the lectures delivered by Brother Robert Cooper will be on sale at the various lecture venues but we are informed that there will be very few, if any, available in this part of the world.
We hope to provide full details of Brother Cooper’s itinerary here once all the details are available. Meantime, there is a considerable amount of material about the origin, purpose and vision of the ANZMRC on their web site.
Once we have Brother Cooper’s itinerary we also hope to post an interview with him, time permitting, on this site.