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Publication Account
Date 1999
Event ID 1018336
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1018336
The municipal buildings of the town are all of comparatively recent construction. The 83 tolbooth, which stood on the High Street near the market cross, was superseded by a new Courthouse figure 23.G and gaol complex figure 23.H on Church Street (constructed as the County Buildings, 1824-6). The gaol was demolished in 1973, during road reconstruction, although a few stones-most notably the Dumbarton burgh arms-remain built into a boundary wall. The Courthouse is strongly classical, with a pedimented porch and ionic pilasters and later additions, such as the balustraded wings (by William Spence, 1865), do not detract from the overall impression.
Information from ‘Historic Dumbarton: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1999).
