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Field Visit
Date 29 July 1915
Event ID 1114546
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1114546
Dalkeith Tolbooth.
The Tolbooth, now put to other uses, stands in the main street, opposite St Nicholas' Church and adjoining the Cross Keys Hotel. It is a 17th-century Renaissance structure of two storeys above ground with subterranean cells beneath the pavement. It is oblong on plan, measuring 53 feet 2 inches from north to south by 21 feet 3 inches from east to west. The masonry to the street is of ashlar with rusticated quoins. At eaves-level there returns a moulded cornice. The entrance doorway has a cartouche within the pediment bearing on a bend a mullet between two crescents, for Scott of Buccleuch.
A panel above the doorway bears, beneath coronets, the initials F.E.B. for Francis, 2nd Earl of Buccleuch, and M.C.B. for Margaret (Leslie), Countess of Buccleuch, and the date 1648. The panel is probably not in situ. The other sides of the structure are built of rubble and harled.
RCAHMS 1929, visited 29 July 1915.
