page_title: Kilmarnock Cross
section_title: King Street
hierarchical_section_title: Kilmarnock Cross / King Street
caption_attribution_description: A view of Kilmarnock Cross, East Ayrshire, Scotland in 1840.
context_page_description: Kilmarnock Cross is a public square in Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland. In Rambles Around Kilmarnock Archibald R Adamson described it as "most spacious, although of a most peculiar form, having no less than seven streets branching off it. In the centre stands a marble statue of Sir James Shaw, who rose from a humble position to that of Lord Mayor of London".
  The seven streets were Portland Street, Fore Street, Regent Street, Duke Street, Waterloo Street, King Street and Bank Street, and just north of Bank Street, but opening more on to Portland Street than the Cross itself, Croft Street. The heavy traffic in the town led to redevelopments in the 1970s which saw all traffic through this area of the town being stopped completely.
context_section_description: King Street opened in 1804. It runs from the Cross over the Kilmarnock Water and on to the junction with Titchfield Street. Many of the buildings on King Street, including the Town House and King Street Church, were demolished during redevelopments in the 1970s and were replaced by flat-roofed shops.
caption: Kilmarnock Cross in 1849
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