09 January 2012
The Church and other religious institutions have for thousands of years provided goldsmiths and silversmiths with employment or inspiration and little has changed in the 21st century.
Over recent months a number of the silversmiths who subscribe to Who’s Who in Gold and Silver have been busy designing and making pieces for churches around the country. Scottish silversmith Graham Stewart was commissioned to make a magnificent ecclesiastical mace to commemorate and celebrate the silver jubilee of Scotland's most senior Catholic clergyman, his Eminence Keith Patrick Cardinal O'Brien as Archibishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh. Read more...