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Plans Preparatory drawing for 'Tolbooths and Town-Houses', RCAHMS, 1996. N.d. Signed: 'JB'
DC 29662
Description Plans Preparatory drawing for 'Tolbooths and Town-Houses', RCAHMS, 1996. N.d. Signed: 'JB'
Date c. 1995
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number DC 29662
Category Prints and Drawings
Copies SC 337320
Scope and Content Plan of Canongate Tolbooth, City of Edinburgh Canongate Tolbooth replaced a ruinous medieval building shortly after Canongate changed from ecclesiastical burgh to burgh of regality. To pay for it, 2,000 merks were levied on the burgh and the associated barony of Broughton. At first, the jail was in the tower, but by 1689 the top floor of the main block seems to have housed female prisoners. By 1837, and until 1848, the tolbooth was a debtors' prison with eight heated rooms. Burgh and barony courts were held in the tolbooth until the late 19th century. The burgh was acquired by the City of Edinburgh in 1639, and amalgamated with the city in 1856. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Scale 1:100
Medium Ink on paper
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