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Doors Open Day® visitor sites LARGS BARRMILL Barr Castle R E GT In town centre Largs M useum W E G A Barrmill Park and Gardens W R E G A T An old Norman keep built by the Lockhart family after an invasion of Kirkgate House, Manse Court, off Main Street Vale Grove and Vale View (Beechgrove) Gardens Anglo-Norman people in the 12th and 13th centuries. George Wishart 1545 and Largs Museum presents a fine collection of domestic artefacts, seaside created by the Barrmill Conservation Group, the Barrmill & District Community John Knox 1556, the Scottish reformers, both preached here as the church doors souvenirs, and photographs of old Largs and Australian connections; and Association and other volunteers, assisted by NAC Ranger Service. Features also were locked against them. Home of Lodge St Peter 331 for over a hundred archival material for researchers. Exhibition: Display of Shawls and details of include restored Dead Man’s Planting site of a 19th century cholera pit, wish years. Community garden. Museum: Display from Steven Brown Art/Lifestyle: Largs weavers; also Reference and Details of Foundation of Largs Museum and trees, wishing wells and doors to Elfhame. New raised beds area. Guided walks McCoo. Historical Society 50 years ago. at 11 a.m. & 2 p.m. each day. Treasure Map competition. Traditional Ayrshire Open Sunday 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. KA4 8HU Open Saturday and Sunday 2 – 5 p.m. KA30 8AW Quoits games for children and adults. Open Saturday 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. KA15 1HW NEWMILNS ©McAteer Skelmorlie Aisle G Within Auld Kirkyard, off Main Street, near Museum The Owl Cote WE G 1636 Renaissance-style canopied tomb within mausoleum to Montgomerie KILWINNING Middlefield Farm, near Darvel TV mast public road SANQUHAR family. Splendid painted barrel-vaulted timber ceiling. Owned by Historic Traditional style round tower built 2008/10 to provide nest site for wild barn Crawick Multiverse Scotland. Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane Mausoleum in Kirkyard. Kilwinning Abbey Tower Heritage Centre W E G owls. Inner core re-uses recycled bricks from former lace factory. Displays of Open Saturday and Sunday 2 – 5 p.m. KA30 8AW Kilwinning Town Centre Industrial Heritage includes old bottles, Ayrshire bricks, local archaeology, Designed by David Hamilton, completed 1816, and built on the foundations of geology and ecology. Clay building blocks from local Victorian water culvert. Clark Memorial Church W M G A T the NW tower of the 12th century Tironensian Abbey. Staffed by volunteers Narrow approach roads. Bath Street from Kilwinning Heritage. Displays on the Abbey, Robert Service ‘The Bard of Open Sunday 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. KA16 9LS T G Abercrombie, 1890-92. Impressive Early Gothic decorated style in red the Yukon’, the Ancient Society of Kilwinning Archers and the papingo sandstone. Rich interior with hammerbeam roof, organ by Willis, stained glass competition dating from 1483, matchstick models and local history. Working DARVEL by C W Whall, Stephen Adam and Meikle & Sons. Service 10 a.m. clock mechanism 1816 by James Blair and two large bells on display. Guided Open Sunday 12 noon – 4 p.m. KA30 8BL tours up 143 steps to the roof for the best views of Ayrshire. Special display of Private Telephone Museum WR E G T archaeological investigation at Ryefield, Dalry, undertaken by members of 1 Burn Road, near the Turf Hotel St John’s Parish Church WG A T KIlwinning Heritage during 2015-16. Bath Street Open Saturday and Sunday 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. KA13 6EG Private museum containing unique display of telephone memorabilia dating from early 1900s to the present. Housed within old bakehouse dating from Congregation dates from the Disruption of 1843. Building reconstructed late 1767, adjacent to the Matthew Burn Green, only remaining public green 19th century in French Romanesque style by Archibald J Grahame, his only in Darvel. monument, recently renovated. Fine stained glass by Douglas Strachan. IRVINE Open Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. KA17 0AJ Service 10 a.m. Open Sunday 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. KA30 8BH Irvine Townhouse WR E G T Darvel Parish Church W R G T 66 High Street In centre of town, Hastings Square A71 After extensive renovation and restoration, the Townhouse has reopened to the Built in 1888, it is the only Church of Scotland congregation left in Darvel. The FAIRLIE public. Sitting at the heart of Irvine, the 1864 civic building is reincarnated as a interior has some fine stained glass, an elegant pulpit and a very fine 1908 NEWMILNS creative and cultural hub in North Ayrshire. Hosting art and heritage Forster & Andrew pipe organ. The new hall at the rear was completed in 1998. Fairlie Parish Church W R T exhibitions, family and local history resources, genealogy services and as a Open Sunday 1 – 4 p.m. KA17 0DR Owl Cote Built as a Chapel of Ease in 1834, and extended in 1883 by venue for civic events and weddings, the building has had new life breathed J J Stephenson. Superb windows by Alfred and Gordon Webster, J H Dearle, back into it. Visit this stunning building to see the renovation and learn about Morris, Powell and Moira Malcolm of Prestwick. Pulpit by Bennet exhibited in its amazing journey through history. Blue badge parking at rear. Escorted tours KILMARNOCK 1888 Empire Exhibition. Weather vane is a model of Fife’s yacht design Latifa. start from foyer at 10 a.m. and 2.30 p.m. Fairlie Stone, early medieval sculptured stone, 1578 ‘Breeches’ Bible, HMS Open Saturday 9.30 a.m. – 1 p.m. and 2 – 4.30 p.m. KA12 0AZ Kilmarnock Fire & Rescue Station W E G T Kingfisher memorial lost off Fairlie 1944. Time Line Book – 175 years of History. Campbell Street, Riccarton Open Sunday 12 noon – 4 p.m. KA29 0AD Wellwood Centre W ground floor only EG A T & Irvine Burns Club Fully operational with modern fire appliances, Ariel Rescue Platform and Major 28 Eglinton Street Incident Unit. Up to date training facilities and community safety education room, with 55 operational fire fighters. Built on the site of Riccarton Castle, Fascinating display of original Burns material and items of the Royal Burgh of PORTENCROS S birthplace of Alan Wallace, father of William Wallace. Irvine. Collection of holograph letters, including Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Open Sunday 12 noon – 4 p.m. KA1 4HL Cnan Doyle and Margaret Thatcher. Audio-visual display illustrating Burns’ life in Portencross Castle E A Irvine. Interesting glass in stairs and music room by Paul Lucky. Irvine Burns Built by Robert Boyd c.1360, and extended to form a tower with Club, founded 1826 and one of the oldest, has one of Scotland’s most significant Riccarton Parish Church and Graveyard W R G T five-storey wing. Robert II frequent visitor, signed charters here. Semi-ruinous, treasure troves. Barometer from Irvine Lifeboat Station. The Templeton chair 1 Old Street, Riccarton but major conservation project 2010 allows access to the interior, including taken to Australia 1909 recently returned. Landmark building standing on former Moot Hill. Category B listed, opened Great Hall with original vaulted ceiling and to the roof for spectacular views. Open Saturday 2 – 5 p.m.; Sunday 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. KA12 8AS 1825. Chancel added 1910 and beautiful War Memorial window 1919. Former Regret wheelchair access limited to ground floor cellar. minister, Rev. Alexander Moodie, mentioned by Burns in The Twa Herds and The Open Saturday and Sunday 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. KA23 9QA Irvine Old Parish Church W E G T Holy Fair, is buried in the Graveyard. Records on display; Slide Show of Old Kirkgate, off Hill Street Riccarton. Service 11.30 a.m. Open Sunday 1.30 – 4.30 p.m. KA1 4JZ Largely built 1774. Elegant steeple. Stained glass by W & J J Kier, with 1996 ARDROSSAN window by Susan Bradbury to commemorate 200th anniversary of death of Holy Trinity Scottish Episcopal Church W R G T Robert Burns, who worshipped here during his stay in Irvine. Churchyard has AYR St Andrew’s Scottish Episcopal Church R Saturday WE T several noteworthy graves and memorials, some dating back to 1 Portland Road South Crescent Pre-Reformation. David Sillar is buried here, and one of the Mauchline Belles. Gothic church by James Wallace, 1856, with porch and magnificent chancel Loudoun Hall designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, 1876. Chancel contains unique David Thomson, 1875, in Early English style, recently restored. Notable stained Designated Commonwealth Grave graveyard. Service 11 a.m. Pre-Raphaelite style painted walls and ceiling designed by Powell & Sons and glass by Clayton & Bell, L C Evetts, Crucifixion by J E W Guthrie, and Angel Open Sunday 1.30 – 4.30 p.m., tour of graveyard at 2.30 p.m. KA12 0DG Burlison & Grylls, described by Close & Riches thus: It is without parallel in Gathering Tulips by Harrington Mann; reredos paintings by William Hole. Ayrshire, and stands among the best examples of High Victorian church decoration Saturday car boot sale till 2 p.m., with tea room and crafts. Service 11.30 a.m. Scottish Maritime Museum WR E G T in Scotland. Stained glass by Powell & Sons, Clayton & Bell, and William Aikman. Open Saturday 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.; Sunday 1 – 4 p.m. KA22 8EA Gottries Road Pipe organ 1877, refurbished 1939. Communion Service on Sunday 10.30 a.m., Explore the vast Linthouse Building of 1872, the largest category A listed brick all welcome. building to be moved. The award winning museum tells the story of Scotland’s Open Saturday 10 a.m.