Reformer's Monument, Kay Park, Kilmarnock

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 03/07/1980 Local Authority East Ayrshire Planning Authority East Ayrshire Burgh Kilmarnock NGR NS 43315 38462 Coordinates 243315, 638462 — 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. — The monument was erected in remembrance of a public gathering held in Dean Park on Saturday, 7th December 1816 to protest at the voting system in Kilmarnock. Around 6,000 people (out of a population of 13,000) attended to campaign for Parliamentary reform and representation for working class people. Only one man in Kilmarnock at that time was eligible to vot

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.