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Latitude: 55.463 / 55°27'46"N
Longitude: -4.6293 / 4°37'45"W
OS Eastings: 233865
OS Northings: 621943
OS Grid: NS338219
Mapcode National: GBR 39.XYGV
Mapcode Global: WH2PP.VYRB
Plus Code: 9C7QF97C+67
Entry Name: Lych Gate, Auld Kirk, Kirk Port, Ayr
Listing Name: Kirk Port, Auld Kirk of Ayr Gateway
Listing Date: 5 February 1971
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 357041
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB21654
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Ayr, Kirk Port, Auld Kirk, Lych Gate
ID on this website: 200357041
Location: Ayr
County: South Ayrshire
Town: Ayr
Electoral Ward: Ayr West
Traditional County: Ayrshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Dated 1656, with later alterations. Square-plan gateway. Sandstone rubble. Elliptical pend arch to E gable elevation; roll-moulded elliptical pend arch to screen wall elevation (Kirk Port). Stone and timber seating and mort-safes to interior walls; braced timber ceiling. 2-leaf spear-headed iron gates to entrance from Kirk Port. Grey slate roof.
Marks entrance from Kirk Port to the Auld Kirk of Ayr and its graveyard including boundary walls and lamp standard (see separate list descriptions). Under the protection of the gateway, the mort-safe was rested while the first part of a burial service was read (now hung on interior walls).
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