Publication Account

Date 1978

Event ID 1018043

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

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Rutherglen Tolbooth dates from at least 1593 - a year in which the Convention of the Royal Burghs granted the town £100 to be used in repairing the tolbooth and causeways (Marwick, 1909, 45). The Tolbooth was rebuilt in 1766 and is described by Ure as an 'elegant' structure, with a council chamber, prison rooms and so forth (1793, 80). That building was in turn replaced by a new Town Hall in 1861. Shearer described an octagonal mark in the pavement directly in front of the public library as part of one of the stone appurtenances which 'graced' the old Tolbooth in 1766 (1922, 285).

Information from ‘Historic Rutherglen: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1978).