Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Unique Content Article: Silver Bangles Provide A Touch Of Pizzazz

Silver Bangles Provide A Touch Of Pizzazz


by Adrian Jones


Tourists visiting the famous Viking cathedral in the center of Kirkwall have the chance to get up close and personal with the motivation behind one of the most famous symbols used in jewelry ranges on Orkney. St Magnus is the name of an early jewellery range and based on the beautiful carved rose window on the south side of the building. You can buy jewelry online displaying this stylish theme in silver bangles, cufflinks, charms, bracelets, rings, pendants, and brooches.

The rose window of St Magnus Cathedral was made in 1856. When it was restored the modern stonemasons at Boden and Ward was the winner of the Natural Stone Awards 2004 as you could not see the joins. They used rock quarried in St Ola, Orkney, transported it 600 miles south to their workshops in Northamptonshire and transported it back here across the sea. The window lies high up in the south transept, a long way up, it is difficult to see the detail. There's a tour that lets you climb up for a close-up view. Or you could just take a look at local silver bangles to see the detail.

Courageous folk are getting invited to buy Christmas vouchers for the cathedral tour that also includes getting close to a grisly hangman's ladder. The double runged ladder - 2 people went up but only one came down - was last utilised at the gallows in Kirkwall, in the Eighteenth 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. Don't encounter another group coming down whilst you're going up!

Other highlights are the Fiat Lux stained glass window in the triforium manufactured 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. These bells are rung using a distinctive method in Britain by one individual using hand pulls and a foot pedal.

People that can negotiate the narrow passageways and stairs are compensated by sights 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 within a pillar in the nave.

Silver bangles and all the additional pieces in the St Magnus range are obtainable if you happen to buy jewelry online on Orkney sites. That is the easy option.




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Title: Silver Bangles Provide A Touch Of Pizzazz
Author: Adrian Jones
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Keywords: jewelers,jewelry,jewellery,jewellery websites,jewelry sites,weddings,gems,gemstones,investment,investments,investing
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