West elevation Preparatory drawing for 'Tolbooths and Town-Houses', RCAHMS, 1996. N.d. Signed: 'JB'
DC 29551
Description West elevation Preparatory drawing for 'Tolbooths and Town-Houses', RCAHMS, 1996. N.d. Signed: 'JB'
Date c. 1994
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number DC 29551
Category Prints and Drawings
Copies SC 337275
Scope and Content Elevation of Dunbar Town-house, East Lothian Dunbar Town-house built after 1593 when the inhabitants were ordered to cart stones from the quarry at Innerwick 'for the bigging of the Tolbuth'. It replaced an earlier tolbooth so ruinous that once a court was held in the churchyard. At first, the Town-house had problems. The prison masonry and windows had to be fixed in 1705, the steeple in 1707. In 1714, an ale-tax paid for repairs before the whole building fell down. But the next known repair, to the spire, was not until 1816. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Scale 1:100
Medium Ink on paper
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