Riccarton One-Place Study. Image: Photo of Riccarton parish church, described by Scotland's Churches Trust as a classical square-plan church with tower and spire standing conspicuously on a hill. We are looking up at the church on a sunny Winter's day (there are no leaves on the trees growing on the grassy bank below the building) with a beautiful, cloud-free blue sky. The clock on the second stage of the tower, just below the small spire, tells us that the time is about 23 minutes past one. One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.

New year, new #OnePlaceStudies! Alana Carmichael’s Riccarton One-Place Study is bringing together #LocalHistory and #FamilyHistory to show how the village of #Riccarton changed over time, how its identity evolved, and how it eventually became part of the town of Kilmarnock. #OnePlaceWednesday

It's the Riccarton Parish Church on Old Street in Kilmarnock and it was built in 1823 on Court Hill, the seat of the judicial executive for the area in feudal times. It's one of only two surviving structures from the old village of Riccarton.

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On the way back to Glasgow from Irvine Beach this afternoon, I passed this church lit beautifully by rays of the setting sun.

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A quick #Website #Update ahead of the New Zealand 2,000 Guineas tonight... Interesting race ahead, my gut feeling is that both of mine need to improve, but my horses have been known to do that...

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