Rosslyn Chapel

This guide to Rosslyn Chapel follows Thomas Mitchell, a former RAF codebreaker turned music teacher, who spent twenty years puzzling over the two hundred and thirteen carved stone cubes above the Lady Chapel. You'll hear how a carved angel holding a musical stave, and his own knowledge of cymatics, set him and his composer son Stuart on a years-long attempt to read the cubes as a hidden score, carved for a chapel Sir William Sinclair founded in fourteen forty-six. Look up at the arches and see how many cube patterns you can pick out for yourself.