Letter from David Roberts to John Britton regarding Roberts’ presentation to the Royal Institute of British Architects concerning evidence of historic alterations to Rosslyn Chapel
AL 39/14
Description Letter from David Roberts to John Britton regarding Roberts’ presentation to the Royal Institute of British Architects concerning evidence of historic alterations to Rosslyn Chapel
Date 2/2/1846
Collection Collection of papers relating to Rosslyn Chapel, Midlothian, Scotland
Catalogue Number AL 39/14
Category Manuscripts
Copies SC 2573965, SC 2573966, SC 2573969
Scope and Content Letter recounts Roberts regret that Britton and Burn were not in attendance at the meeting of the institute where he presented his evidence for historic alterations to Rosslyn Chapel. Roberts recalls the writing of Father Richard Augustine Hay as supporting evidence for Sir Walter Scott’s assertion that that the barons of the family were buried beneath the chapel, which William Burn claimed to have disproved. Torchlight and the splendour of the funeral ceremony is proposed as an explanation for the “supernatural light” which illuminated the chapel on the occasion of Baron St Clair’s death and support is given to Fowler’s theory that the east chapel was used as the burial place but later plundered during the reformation.
Accession Number 2021/8
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