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Alloway Kirk
Built about 1516. First pointed in style, 'Alloway's auld haunted kirk' was last used for worship in 1756, by which time it had fallen into a state of disrepair. It became roofless very soon after. When the parishes of Ayr and Alloway were joined in 1891 by the Boundary Commissioners, a proposal to remove the bell was mooted; but the villagers successfully protested against any such desecration. William Burnes, the poet's father, lies buried in the churchyard; not however, under his original stone, which was carried away in pieces by sou9venier hunters. Alloway Kirk was, of course, the setting for Burns's poem 'Tam o' Shanter', based on legends which the poet transmitted to the antiquarian Francis Grose in a letter written probably in early June 1790.
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