{"id":500,"date":"2010-02-24T19:28:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T19:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/?p=500"},"modified":"2010-09-14T11:14:18","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T10:14:18","slug":"st-magnus-cathedral-kirkwall-orkney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/2010\/02\/st-magnus-cathedral-kirkwall-orkney\/","title":{"rendered":"St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking over the main entrance to St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall is this clock, \u00a0often missed by visitors.<\/p>\n

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St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney<\/p><\/div>\n

The mechanism of the clock is in the tower in a place called \u00a0– Cowper’s Ha. It is the room below where the bells are hung.<\/p>\n

It is the duty of the Cathedral Stone Mason to wind the clock<\/a> every working day.<\/p>\n

Here is an image of John Windwick<\/a> winding the cathedral clock in September 1985 from the Orkney Image Library.<\/p>\n

The clock can be up to ten seconds fast each day.<\/p>\n

The original clock was built by Hugh Gordon, an Aberdeen Clockmaker, in 1761. It is now on display in Tankerness House Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More details about Orkney can be found on Spirit-of-orkney.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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