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What later came to be known as the Laigh Kirk in Kilmarnock was the original medieval church of the parish of Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, and was dedicated to St Marnoch (although the saint's name is now attached to the parish of Kilmarnock: St Marnock, constituted in 1856). Post-Reformation ministry at the kirk is recorded from 1561, in the person of John Muir, reader. The church was rebuilt in 1802 and enlarged in 1831, but preserves a medieval tower, said to date from 1410. From 1649 it had two separate charges (merged in 1938), and after 1811 it became known as the Laigh Kirk, to distinguish it from the parish of Kilmarnock High Kirk, erected in that year. In 2001 Kilmarnock Laigh united with Kilmarnock West High to form the session of Kilmarnock Laigh West High. It was in the presbytery of Irvine & Kilmarnock and the synod of Glasgow and Ayr, later Ayr. Synods were abolished in 1993. |