Ecclesiastical Time


1140	Granting of charter to Kilwinning Abbey.

1744	The Second Parochial Church is abandoned at the Stanley Clachan in Ardrossan and the Third Parochial Church built in Saltcoats at the site of the present North Ayrshire Museum. The population at this time was increasing much faster in the Saltcoats part of Ardrossan Parish.
1773	The Fourth Parochial Church was rebuilt on the same site as the third.
1843	Free Church built.

1856	St Mary's Catholic Church built.
1863	Congregational Church built.
1856	The Churchyard at the Parochial Church in Saltcoats was filling up and a new burial ground was opened, situated at the upper corner of one of the fields attached to the farm of Parkhouse in Ardrossan.
1907	St Cuthbert's South Beach Church built
1908	Ardrossan Parish Church closed. It is now the North Ayrshire Museum.