Churchyard, Laigh Kirk, Kilmarnock is a Grade B listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 July 1980. Graveyard.
Churchyard, Laigh Kirk, Kilmarnock
- WRENN ID
- salt-finial-pine
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP: Lillian Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1980
- Type
- Graveyard
- OS grid reference
- NS 427 379
- Coordinates
- 55.60982, -4.49804
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The churchyard of Laigh Kirk in Kilmarnock was enclosed around 1710. It features rubble walls topped with flat ashlar copes. The walls were later lowered to function as retaining walls, and the outer surfaces have been rendered.
Within the churchyard, there are several 18th century stones, including some table tombs with baluster feet and a few notable 19th century classical stones. Among the memorials is one for John Nisbet from 1683, and a Covenanter stone that was renewed by public subscription in 1823.
The entrance is marked by a pair of square ashlar gatepiers, which have panelled shafts and projecting square neck copes. Tall wrought-iron lamps with glazed coach lamps sit atop the gatepiers, and there are later wrought-iron gates.
Local climate
Churchyard, Laigh Kirk, Kilmarnock sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,420 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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