Archaeology Notes

Event ID 735095

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO60NW 11 61315 07773

(NO 6131 0777) Town Hall (NAT)

OS 25" map (1914)

The tolbooth, Crail. As it existed in 1517, the tolbooth is represented by the lower part only of its tower, which has been considerably altered and now has no features of particular interest. The masonry here is rubble and a 12th century capital and base, presumably from the church (60 NW 2) are built into the S side. Circular windows in the upper part were inserted in 1776. In the E extension of the building, dating from 1814, there is an armorial panel bearing the date 160(2) and the name of the town. The steeple contains a bell cast in 1520.

RCAHMS 1933

Crail tolbooth. The town hall at Crail combines a tower or tolbooth with a more modern municipal building. The former has been much altered and converted into a belfray. Listed by MacGibbon and Ross in their fourth period (1542-1700).

D MacGibbon and T Ross 1892

As described by RCAHMS.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 27 August 1963

A date of 1517 has been claimed for the lower part of the tower but it may equally correspond with the tolbooth construction authorised in 1598. The upper stages of the tower and the pagoda-like belfray date from 1776; and the adjacent two storey council chamber block of 1814 probably replaces a predecessor.

G Stell 1982

NMRS measured drawing FID/72/1 c.1950 (copy).

(Undated) information in NMRS.