The Scottish War Memorials Project

spoons · Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 8:28 am Post subject: St Quivox

Not listed on UKNIWM.

The memorial is a cross set in a garden at the junction of Low Road and High Road, Ayr at OS Map Ref NS 363 231. Considering it is on a main road between a housing estate and an industrial area, it is in remarkably pleasant surroundings, but it could ‘dae wi a wee dicht’.

I swithered about where to post this (church or civic), all of the WW2 names seem to be on the main Ayr memorial but most of the Great War names do not, therefore I have posted it as civic because this may well be the only memorial with these men’s names.

(I don’t know what came over me there, 2 Scottish phrases and that from a sassenach!)

dhubthaigh · Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 11:46 am Post subject:

Would this have been the original location of the monument?

spoons · Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 12:36 pm Post subject:

Not exactly sure, but I believe so. It is certainly inside St Quivox parish, originally this was a rural parish that straddled the A77 and was outside of Ayr but as Ayr has expanded pretty much up to the A77, the parish now seems a bit Jekyll and Hyde with urban to the West and rural to the East. Happy to be corrected by anyone who knows the area better though.

spoons · Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:31 pm Post subject:

This memorial is sometimes known locally as Whitletts Cross.