Kilwinning Abbey clock tower improvement works planned
Urgent improvement works are planned to spruce up Kilwinning’s famous Abbey clocktower. Work on landmark, run by volunteers from Kilwinning Heritage, will include stone repairs, replacement of heavily eroded mullions, structural repairs, reinstatement of pinnacle stones and refurbishment of clock faces and the timber doors. They would also replace the ground floor and first floor windows, install mesh grilles behind louvres in bell loft, replace the lead roof and modify the stair tower roof to give increased head height. Plans state: "The project will be sympathetic to the propertyâ...