General view of entrance front looking South
SC 436785
Description General view of entrance front looking South
Date c. 1929
Collection Records of Scottish Colorfoto Ltd, photographers, Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 436785
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 66649
Scope and Content 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 Tron Kirk was altered and shortened when Hunter Square was built c.1790 by John Baxter. It retains part of the original hammerbeam ceiling by John Scott. The original wooden spire, destroyed by the Great Fire in 1824, was replaced in stone in 1828. 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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