Ayr Road is one of the main roads through the town and means literally the road to Ayr (the county town). Ayr Road leads off Glaisnock Street and was opened in the late 18th century, and in the early period there was a toll on the corner of Ayr Road and Glaisnock Street. Tolls were levied on goods and passengers coming into Cumnock.

Trinity Church

The Church in Ayr Road has been known as the Trinity church since 2004 by the union of Crichton West Church and St. Ninian’s, Netherthird. The name was chosen to include a previous union between Crichton Memorial and The West Church.

Erected between 1896 and 1899, the Crichton Church was paid for by Miss Crichton of Hillside House in memory of her father Hew Crichton and her brother Sheriff James Arthur Crichton who died within days of each other in 1892.

The Church, with its seating capacity of 500, is built of red sandstone in decorated Victorian Gothic design. The spire stands 140 feet tall and can be seen for miles around. In 2025 this beautiful church was closed.

The Ayr road shops 38-42 Ayr road

Wood-fronted shops

This very distinctive shop premises dates from 1899-1901 and was erected at the same time as the adjoining Crichton Memorial Church, now Cumnock Trinity Church. The church is known to have been designed by the Edinburgh architect, Duncan Menzies, and it is thought that the three shops that occupy the present building were also designed by him. Certainly, the building is a high-quality one, built with the same red sandstone as the adjoining church, and finished internally with the same pitch pine panelling.

The building was originally three separate shops.

iron rails

Cumnock Action Plan with Cumnock History Group . Plaques funded by 9CC.

cumnockhistorygroup.org