The Glencairn Aisle or Glencairn Vault at Kilmaurs, East Ayrshire is a Category B Listed vaulted sepulchral chapel built as a place for private contemplation and prayer that also contains a large memorial monument, as well as the burial crypt of the Cunningham Earls of Glencairn and their family members. An 'Aisle' is defined as a structure normally attached to a church, which may have
burial crypt below, a family pew above, and sometimes a
retiring room as at the Glencairn Aisle.[2]
It houses an exceptional ornately carved stone mural monument dated 1600 that commemorates James Cunningham, the 7th Earl of Glencairn, his countess, Margaret Campbell and eight of their children.[3] It is the oldest such 'Glorious Tomb' monument built in the 17th century in Ayrshire[4] and one of the oldest post-reformation monument in Scotland. The other Ayrshire examples being the Kennedy or Bargany Aisle at Ballantrae of circa 1601, the Skelmorlie Aisle at Largs of 1639, the Crauford Monument at Kilbirnie and the Hamilton Aisle at Dunlop of 1641.[5]
The aisle is associated with St Maurs-Glencairn parish church that was dedicated to either the Virgin Mary[6] or St Mora or Maura[7] of Little Cumbrae and was gifted to Kelso Abbey in 1170 by Robertus filli Wernebaldi, an ancestor of the Cunninghams.[7] In 1413, it was endowed as a college of secular canons with a provost and several prebendaries. In 1600, James, seventh Earl of Glencairn, is said to have added the Glencairn Aisle or Vault to the then existing East-West orientated church building.[8] In the aisle there is the aforementioned early 17th century mural monument (1600) commissioned by James, Seventh Earl of Glencairn for himself, his countess, Margaret, his children and close relatives.[9]
Memorial plaques to members of the cadet branches of Caprington, Corsehill and Robertland are also present on the walls.
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^Harhay, A; McKechnie (2009). "Sir David Cunningham of Robertland. Murderer and Magna Brittania's First Architect". Architectural History:Journal of the Architectural Historians of Great Britain. 52: 87.
^Adamson, Archibald (1879). Rambles Round Kilmarnock. Dunlop and Drennan. p. 147.
^Ballantare Old Church and Kennedy Monument
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^McNaught, Duncan (1912). Kilmaurs Parish and Burgh. Alexander Gardner. p. 112.
^ abAdamson, Archibald (1879). Rambles Round Kilmarnock. Dunlop and Drennan. p. 146.
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^Beattie, Robert (1993). Kilmaurs Past and Present. Kilmaurs Historical society. p. 14.
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