Publication Account

Date 2009

Event ID 1019794

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

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The tolbooth of Kirkintilloch stood at The Cross (fig 29.7) until the early nineteenth century. It is not known when it was built, but references appear from the start of the burgh’s first extant Court Book in 1659. The tollbooth was used for meetings of the burgh court and acted as a jail; in addition, important announcements were made at the tolbooth’s door and the burgh’s stocks stood outside it. In the mid-eighteenth century the tolbooth was renovated to incorporate the parish school. Kirkintilloch had a parish school from an early date, standing, according to early nineteenth-century sources, on a piece of ground south of Kirkgate, but in 1748 the building was dilapidated. The land and materials were sold off to Andrew Graham and the money received was put towards the tolbooth’s refurbishment, the school comprising the whole upper floor. The tolbooth was demolished in 1813, to be replaced by the Town-house or ‘Barony Chambers’ (fig 29.11).

Information from ‘The Scottish Burgh Survey, Historic Kilsyth: Archaeology and Development’ (2009).