Reformer's Monument, Kay Park, Kilmarnock is a Grade B listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 July 1980. Monument.
Reformer's Monument, Kay Park, Kilmarnock
- WRENN ID
- north-iron-twilight
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Ayrshire
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1980
- Type
- Monument
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Robert Samson Ingram, architect, 1885. Matthew Muir, builder. Tall fluted Corinthian column on square plinth with chamfered corners. Dressed Giffnock stone on coursed stepped red ashlar plinth with random rubble base.
S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: later base leading to stepped plinth: lower stage carved: "UNVEILED by the Right Hon. THE EARL OF ROSEBERY, Oct. 17, 1885." Upper stage containing aediculed frame with RM monogram with inset plaque inscribed: "To the memory of Captain Thomas Baird and Alexander McLaren, as also John Burt, John Kennedy, Archibald Craig and other Kilmarnock pioneers of Parliamentary reform who, in the early part of the 19th Century, devoted themselves with unselfish zeal to the cause of the people. Erected by public subscription 1885"; bell shaped detail to corners of chamfered base. Octagonal base with Corinthian column surmounting.
W ELEVATION: later base leading to stepped plinth with bell shaped detail to corners of chamfered base, stone to 2nd stage inscribed "RO. S. INGRAM ARCHITECT" and "MATTHEW MUIR BUILDER"; octagonal base with Corinthian column surmounting.
N AND E ELEVATIONS: later base leading to stepped plain plinth with bell shaped detail to corners of chamfered 2nd stage; octagonal base with Corinthian column surmounting.
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