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Interior - third floor, eastern barrel vaulted cell, view from east
B 39472
Description Interior - third floor, eastern barrel vaulted cell, view from east
Date 27/11/1990
Catalogue Number B 39472
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 335736
Scope and Content Second-floor cell inside Dysart Tolbooth, Fife Built in 1576, Dysart Tolbooth replaced an earlier tolbooth. The main block - enlarged in 1765, replaced in 1885 - housed the magistrates, the council, a prison, weigh-house, and guard-house. One room, a coffee room in 1811, became a library in 1815. The coffin-shaped box actually contains the burgh clock's pendulum which hangs down from the clock-stage. A new clock was discussed in 1825, but the present clock was made in 1876 by H and R Miller of Edinburgh. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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