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The bulletin

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Created/Published
Sydney, N.S.W.: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 1880-1984
Issue
Vol. 73 No. 3770 (14 May 1952)
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The Bulletin  

“The Bulletin,” Vol. 73—No. 3770  

Wednesday, May 14, 1952  

Price 9d.  

Registered at the General Post Office, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia, for Transmission by Post as Newspaper  

Seppelts  

IN TWIN-PILLARED ST. MAGNUS CATHEDRAL ITS NAMESAKE'S BONES WERE FOUND  

TO the north of Scotland, across the Pentland Firth, lie two groups of  

Islands, the Orkneys and the Shetlands, which are connected with the  

mainland by frequent air and steam services. In these islands modern customs  

and facilities exist side by side with the methods and manners of past  

centuries. Miles of magnificent coastline, striking Norse background and  

the almost nightless summers are features which lend charm to these northern  

latitudes. The Orkneys comprise some ninety islands, about quarter of  

which are inhabited, the largest of these being Pomona, on which is the  

attractive little Cathedral city of Kirkwall.  

The Cathedral, cruciform building of red and white freestone, was  

built in 1137, and replaced an earlier church founded in 1115 in honour of  

Magnus, Jarl of Orkney, who had been murdered. In 1926 the skeleton of  

St. Magnus was discovered in pinewood chest within two pillars in the  

Cathedral; his skull was pierced by the blow which caused his death. In this  

Cathedral rested the body of Hakon of Norway, who died at Kirkwall after  

his defeat by Alexander 111 in 1263 at the Battle of Largs. His body was  

later taken to Trondhjem in Norway.  

At the Reformation the Cathedral was saved from desecration by the  

townsmen, and Kirkwall continued to be an episcopal See under succession  

of seven Protestant bishops until the Revolution. Cromwell’s troops used  

the steeple of the Cathedral as prison and as fortress, and turned the  

nave into barracks and stable. In 1671 the spire was destroyed by lightning,  

and restorations were carried out in 1845 and 1883. The exterior length of the  

Cathedral is 234 feet and the tower is 133 feet high. The bells of the Cathedral  

were cast by R. Borthwick, the master gunner who tried so hard to save  

his master James IV from his own folly at the Battle of Flodden.  

In the north transept of the Cathedral is monument to W. B. Baikil  

(1825-64), the African explorer, and the nave contains the tomb of John Rae  

(1819-93), the Arctic explorer. Another monument is that of the historian  

Malcolm Laing (1762-1818). In the vestry are preserved some seventeenth  

century alms-plates, one of which has scenes from Paradise and bears the  

inscription “Had Adam obeyed God’s word we should have lived in  

Paradise.”  

ROYAL PURPLE PARA  

PRODUCT OF THE  

HOUSE OF SEPPELT  

B. SEPPELT SONS LTD.  

ADELAIDE SYDNEY MELBOURNE BRISBANE FREMANTLE AND BROKEN HILL ALSO AT 88 CANNON STREET LONDON E.C.4.  

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