Identifier: castellateddomes05macg (find matches)
Title: The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: MacGibbon, David, d. 1902 Ross, Thomas, 1839-1930
Subjects: Architecture Architecture, Domestic Castles
Publisher: Edinburgh : D. Douglas
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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(as happened inso many other instances) have been added to the old tolbooth ; but it wasfound more expedient in this case to erect a separate edifice on an extendedplan in the neighbouring High Street. In this building are still situatedthe council chambers and the various court-rooms and oflices connectedwith the municipal administration. MUSSELBURGH TOLBOOTH, Midlothian. The tolbooth of the regality of )\Iusselburgh is situated in the centreof the north side of the main street, and is the most conspicuous structurein the burgh. It is three stories in height (Fig. 1229), and each story isvaulted, so that it is extremely massive in construction, and bears inthis and other respects a considerable resemblance to many of the castles.It has the bartizans and parapet walk projected on corbels, and defendedby a parapet along the south side and east end, and above this a third orattic story. The entrance to the building is at the east end by an outside FOURTH PERIOD 110 MUSSELBURGH TOLBOOTH
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MUSSELBURGH TOLBOOTH — 111 — FOURTH PERIOD stair rising to the first floor. The square porch shown on the Sketch is,of course, modern. Over the present entrance door, which is of later datethan the tolbooth, is the inscription— Magastrates do justice . jgy^ , »„„ He that God doth fear in the fear of God. will not to falsehood lend an ear. The council house was on the first floor. It contained no fireplace, and itwas only in. 1716 that the council allowed the bailies to affix a brace inthe council house to serve for a fire in cold weather. * Immediately adjoining the entrance door in the porch, a wheel-stair ina projecting turret on the north wall leads to the upper floor, which con-tained the cells for prisoners, and to the parapet walk. The Renaissance building shown on the right hand, and entering fromthe top of the outside stair, is a new council chamber, built in 1762, andis a favourable example of the style of the period. The old tolbooth was destroyed by the Earl of H

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