Crail, Marketgate. View from south west.
SC 739247
Description Crail, Marketgate. View from south west.
Date c. 1885
Collection Papers of Erskine Beveridge, antiquarian, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 739247
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of F 1916
Scope and Content Marketgate, Crail, Fife, looking south-east Marketgate, a broad thoroughfare that runs parallel to the shore, is one of Crail's oldest streets, and once formed one of the largest medieval market-places in Europe. The Scottish photographer, Erskine Beveridge, photographed Marketgate on a visit to Crail c.1885. The street is dominated by the squat 18th-century tower of the tolbooth (town hall). The lower part of the tower dates from the 16th century, and the two diminishing stages (the upper one with a clock) were added in 1776. The distinctive pagoda-like slated spire with its dormer belfry-openings probably dates from the same time. The whitewashed, harled Golf Hotel (right), a former coaching inn, dates from the early 18th century. Crail tolbooth was originally built in the 16th century to serve the town as council chamber, courthouse, tax-office, guard-house and prison cells. The main block (left) which, by the early 19th century had become 'old and ruinous', was extensively rebuilt in 1814-15 and housed the council chamber on the first floor. The tower contained the guard-house and the prison cells in the lower storeys. The belfry has a fine Flemish bell, made in 1520, which rang the curfew for the town at 10pm each night. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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