Interior-general view of roof structure from South East
SC 426699
Description Interior-general view of roof structure from South East
Catalogue Number SC 426699
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of ED 8100
Scope and Content Interior of the Tron Kirk, High Street, Edinburgh The Tron Kirk church was built as 'Christ Church at the Tron' c.1637 by John Mylne to house a congregation displaced when St Giles became a cathedral under Charles I's charter of 1633. It took its name from the 'tron' or weigh beam that once stood here. The roof structure has a surviving portion of the original oak hammerbeam roof with gilt 'knops' by John Scott which may have been constructed with timber from the Old Tolbooth. The stained glass window is by Ballantine. The Tron was a wooden beam fixed on top of three or four stone steps. All merchandise that came into the City was weighed here. Merchants whose goods were found to be underweight, and 'sinners' were nailed to the beam by the ear. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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