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Latitude: 55.428 / 55°25'40"N
Longitude: -4.6374 / 4°38'14"W
OS Eastings: 233203
OS Northings: 618060
OS Grid: NS332180
Mapcode National: GBR 49.00HX
Mapcode Global: WH2PW.QTXQ
Plus Code: 9C7QC9H7+52
Entry Name: Alloway Kirk Graveyard
Listing Name: Alloway Kirk Graveyard including Hughes Mausoleum, Gatepiers, Gates and Boundary Wall and excluding Scheduled Monument No 308, 'Alloway Kirk', Alloway
Listing Date: 5 February 1971
Last Amended: 26 August 2015
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 405577
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB21471
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200405577
Location: Ayr
County: South Ayrshire
Town: Ayr
Electoral Ward: Ayr West
Traditional County: Ayrshire
Tagged with: Cemetery
Stone gatepiers and 2-leaf iron gates to central entrance. Iron railed stone stair to left. Coped boundary wall enclosing site.
Of special note is the resting place of Robert Burns' father. Also of particular interest is the finely executed classical mausoleum to Lt Gen Hughes of Mount Charles, employing similar details to the Burns Monument (see separate listing).
'Alloway Kirk' is Scheduled Monument No 308 and is excluded from the listing.
Listed building record and statutory address updated in 2015. Previously listed as 'Alloway, Alloway Kirk Graveyard including Hughes Mausoleum, Gatepiers, Gates and Boundary Wall.'
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