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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| ST JOHN THE BAPTIST'S CHURCH Ruin (12th Century) | Hugh Miller Provost Alexander Fullarton J. J. McDerment |
033 | [Situation] In the Centre of The Fort. The Burgh or Parish Church was dedicated to St John the Baptist and is understood to have been founded in the 12th Century. Its form was that of a Cross being nearly double the length of the transept and at the eastern end of the nave there was a Gothic Window of elegant form and richly ornamented. Of this venerable Gothic structure nothing now remains but its tower to which the west end of it was Conjoined. Its form ⁜however may still be traced faintly by a Careful Survey of the Ground on which it stood. ++++++++ In 1560 the Care of the Church & Parish was transferred to the Reformed Clergy among the first of whom was the Rev [Reverend] John Welsh who was a Son - in law of the Celebrated Reformer Knox +++++++ In 1652 Oliver Cromwell finding the Ground around the Church a fit situation for a fort, took possesion of it and converted the Church into an armoury. The exterior of it remained entire long after the building of the fort, even after its demolition. The present old Church of Ayr was built to supply its place. - Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account] of Ayrshire ⁜Now entirely defaced. |
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| AYR ARMS' INN [Ayr] | Nil | 033 | [Situation] West Side of Sandgate Street near the Assembly Rooms. A House of first rate accomodation principally used by County gentlemen |
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Sheet 7 Ayr
Ordnance Survey - Ayr county, OS Name Books - Ayr county - Volume 5 - Town of Ayr, OS1/3/5
This volume contains information on place names found in the town of Ayr.
Ordnance Survey - Ayr county
Ordnance Survey was established in the 18th century to create maps, surveys and associated records for the entirety of Great Britain. These records are arranged by county. This entry has been created to enable searching for Ordnance Survey records for the county of Ayr, which is in the south west of Scotland. The boundaries of the county were altered by the Boundary Commissioners in 1891.