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Thistle Chapel ▶️ A particularly fine shot of the glorious chapel within St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh. And here's more about it, from the photographer, Memoirs of a Yorkshireman:
"I had this vision in my head for a while and wanted a striking cathedral roof. St Giles' Cathedral Thistle Chapel was perfect, as you can see.
The most striking part of this feature to me was the heron sigil at the top of the roof that was a biblical metaphor, it's right at the very top of the p...hoto and depicts a heron biting out it's own heart to feed to its young.
The Thistle Chapel is the chapel of The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Scotland's foremost Order of Chivalry.
The chapel was conceived in 1909 and built in 1911 to designs by Robert Lorimer, at the south-east corner of the church. It is small, but exquisite, with carved and painted fittings of extraordinary detail. One figure depicts an angel playing bagpipes.
The Order, which was founded by King James VII in 1687, consists of the Scottish monarch and 16 knights. The knights are the personal appointment of the monarch, and are normally Scots who have made a significant contribution to national or international affairs.
Along the chapel's sides are the knights’ stalls. These stalls, which feature the knight's coat of arms on stall plates, are capped by elaborately carved canopies atop which are the knight's heraldic helm and crest."
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Tearoom success ▶️ Congratulations to the restored Mackintosh at the Willow tearooms in Glasgow on winning both the Project and the Building Conservation of the Year awards.
Other winners of the #RICS Awards 2019:
Commercial – The Garment Factory, Glasgow... Community Benefit – Music Hall Transformation, Aberdeen Design through Innovation – The Macallan Distillery and Visitor Experience, Charlestown of Aberlour Infrastructure – Queensferry Crossing, Edinburgh Regeneration – West Dunbartonshire Council Dumbarton Office, Dumbarton Residential – The Playfair at Donaldson’s, Edinburgh Tourism & Leisure – V&A Dundee, Dundee
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