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Alloway was a medieval parish which became a prebend of the Chapel Royal, Stirling. The parish church was dedicated to St Mungo. In 1690 the adjoining parishes of Ayr and Alloway were united, leaving the original church to become the ruin of ?Tam o? Shanter?, although it was later re-roofed to serve as a schoolhouse. In 1860 the parish was once more disjoined from Ayr, with a territory which was subsequently much enlarged. Shortly prior to 1860 a mission chapel had been erected close to Alloway Parish Church and the parish church itself was substantially enlarged in 1891. It is in Ayr presbytery and was in the synod of Glasgow and Ayr until the reorganisation of 1929, thereafter in the synod of Ayr. Synods were abolished in 1993. |