5th June 2010
I’ve been waiting to post this for a wee while since I was trying to find out more about it. What we have in Rozelle House is a Bishop sitting on top of an eroded carving of the Glasgow Coat of Arms. It is said that they were taken from the front of a Bank in Troon when the building was being demolished a long time ago. Since Ayr & Troon were within the See of the Bishop of Glasgow, I can understand why the Coat of Arms might be associated with him, but what they were doing on a Bank building frankly mystifies me.

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23rd May 2007

This photograph was taken under the same conditions as that of yesterday, but shows the view a little further round the bay.
The spire showing through the trees on the left of the picture is the Episcopal Cathedral of the Isles, the spiritual home of my sister-in-law.
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12th February 2007

The foundation stone of the current Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Ayr was laid in 1887 and the new church opened in 1888; this on the site of the church originally opened in 1839.
The design was by John Loughborough Pearson, RA, who designed mainly in England. His original ideas for a tower and spire (almost certainly very tall and very sharp) were not followed up and the current tower and ‘spire’ was added in 1964, 76 years after the church opened.
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