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The Lands of Tour and Kirkland (NS416406) formed a small estate close to the old Kirktoun and St Maurs-Glencairn collegiate church about 1 km south-east of Kilmaurs, East Ayrshire, Parish of Kilmaurs, Scotland. The word 'Tour' in Scots refers to a 'tower' and 'kirk' to a parish church.〔(Scot's Dictionary )〕 ==History== The name 'Tower', changed to 'Tour' in the 1900s, as used nowadays for the nearby estate and the old monastic area below the glebe, derives from the old buildings of the collegiate church community dwellings that lay below this church, once described thus : "''It is a high strong-built house, consisting of several apartments; ... most likely the clergy had this for their residence.''" It is recorded that the collegiate church had a provost, six to eight prebendaries and two choir boys and therefore a fair amount of accommodation was required.〔Dobie, Page 285〕 The slightly rectangular shaped tower itself stood close to the surviving dovecot dated 1630〔 and still stood to a significant height as late as 1912, however it is now almost at foundations level as most of the old tower was removed to make it safe in the 1990s.〔A History of Kilmaurs〕〔McNaught, Page 128〕 Beattie records that the tower had a narrow entrance and a flagged floor with at ground level what appeared to be facilities for washing or bathing.〔Beattie, Page 9〕 The dovecot appears to be an adapted survival of an earlier monastic building as witnessed by the medieval carving of a face at the bottom of one of the crow-stepped gables.〔Pleasance, Page 24〕 The old dwelling is locally said to have been used by Huge de Morville lived here whilst Kilwinning Abbey was under construction and was last occupied in the 1660s.〔 The Prebendary lands of the 'Tower' and the prebendary mill, once associated with the financing of the community, came to around 80 acres.〔McNaught, Page 116〕 Known as Kirk Fauld in 1967 it was previously known as Tour Gardens Farm.〔Patience, Page 23〕 The old collegiate church buildings would have been made use of in some way by the Cunninghames of Robertland from the time they acquired the lands in the 1530s as was usually the case following the Reformation in Scotland. The dovecot or doocot at the site has the date 1636 however the lower section has been tentatively dated to the 10th century as part of the collegiate church complex of buildings.〔 Kirk lands at the time of the Reformation in Scotland were often returned to the representatives of the founding families and this was the case at the collegiate church of Kilmaurs which returned to the Cunninghames〔Sanderson, Page 21〕 of Robertland, granted by the Abbot and Convent of Kelso in 1532, in the person of David Cunninghame. The lands remained with that family until the 19th century.〔Paterson, Page 475〕 By the time of the Reformation the kirk lands of Kilmaurs had already been leased out to Cunninghame of Robertland, surprisingly for a smaller sum than the absentee minister could have expected to receive from the petty kirk dues.〔Sanderson, Page 20〕 Kirkland House is located off the Kilmarnock road on a lane that also runs up to the old manse that stands on the hill to the west overlooking the Tour policies. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lands of Tour and Kirkland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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