Visitors visiting the grand Viking cathedral right in the centre of Kirkwall get the chance to get up close and personal with the motivation behind quite possibly the most popular symbols used in jewelry ranges on Orkney. St Magnus is the name of an early jewellery collection and in line with the wonderful carved rose windowpane on the south side of the building. You can easily buy jewelry online featuring this stylish pattern in silver bangles, cufflinks, charms, bracelets, rings, pendants, and brooches.
The rose window of St Magnus Cathedral was created in 1856. When it was renewed the present day stonemasons at Boden and Ward received the Natural Stone Awards 2004 as you could not view the joins. They used rock quarried in St Ola, Orkney, sent it 600 miles south to their workshops in Northamptonshire and shipped it back here across the sea. The window lies up high in the south transept, a long way up, it is challenging to see the detail. There's a tour that lets you ascend for a close-up view. Or you can just view local silver bangles to discover the detail.
Fearless folk are now being invited to buy Christmas gift vouchers for the cathedral tour which also includes getting close to a grisly hangman's ladder. The double runged ladder - 2 people went up but just one came down - was last used at the gallows in Kirkwall, in the 18th century.
Silver Bangles - The Devil Is In The Detail
Also the spiraling narrow stairs for the tour of the upper floor of St Magnus Cathedral are definitely not for the faint hearted. Try not to meet up with another group coming down while you are going up!
Other highlights are the Fiat Lux stained glass window in the triforium made in the 1920s by Oscar Paterson, an associate of Charles Rennie Macintosh - and bells cast in the gun foundry at Edinburgh Castle in the early 16th century. The three bells are rung using a exclusive method in the United Kingdom by one individual using hand pulls plus a foot pedal.
Those that can negotiate the narrow passageways and stairs are rewarded by views over Kirkwall to the isles. The cathedral was founded in Viking times in 1137 by Earl Rognvald in remembrance of his uncle St Magnus who was martyred by an axe blow. A skull split by a weapon and considered to be that of the saint is enshrined inside a pillar in the nave.
Silver bangles and all the other pieces in the St Magnus collection can be obtained if you happen to buy jewelry online on Orkney websites. That's the easy option.
The rose window of St Magnus Cathedral was created in 1856. When it was renewed the present day stonemasons at Boden and Ward received the Natural Stone Awards 2004 as you could not view the joins. They used rock quarried in St Ola, Orkney, sent it 600 miles south to their workshops in Northamptonshire and shipped it back here across the sea. The window lies up high in the south transept, a long way up, it is challenging to see the detail. There's a tour that lets you ascend for a close-up view. Or you can just view local silver bangles to discover the detail.
Fearless folk are now being invited to buy Christmas gift vouchers for the cathedral tour which also includes getting close to a grisly hangman's ladder. The double runged ladder - 2 people went up but just one came down - was last used at the gallows in Kirkwall, in the 18th century.
Silver Bangles - The Devil Is In The Detail
Also the spiraling narrow stairs for the tour of the upper floor of St Magnus Cathedral are definitely not for the faint hearted. Try not to meet up with another group coming down while you are going up!
Other highlights are the Fiat Lux stained glass window in the triforium made in the 1920s by Oscar Paterson, an associate of Charles Rennie Macintosh - and bells cast in the gun foundry at Edinburgh Castle in the early 16th century. The three bells are rung using a exclusive method in the United Kingdom by one individual using hand pulls plus a foot pedal.
Those that can negotiate the narrow passageways and stairs are rewarded by views over Kirkwall to the isles. The cathedral was founded in Viking times in 1137 by Earl Rognvald in remembrance of his uncle St Magnus who was martyred by an axe blow. A skull split by a weapon and considered to be that of the saint is enshrined inside a pillar in the nave.
Silver bangles and all the other pieces in the St Magnus collection can be obtained if you happen to buy jewelry online on Orkney websites. That's the easy option.
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