The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . 1224.—Canongate Tolbooth. View from South-West. oak shingles, in size 13 inches by 6 inches, and tapering from half an inchto one-eighth of an inch in thickness, the thin end being at tlie top, and CANONGATE TOLBOOTH — 105 — FOURTH PERIOD. Fig. 1225.—Canongate Tolbooth. View from South-East.(Copied from a Sepia Drawing made early in this century.) FOURTH PERIOD — 106 — EDINUUKGII TOLHOOTH each secured with two or three oak pins. The shingles were taken off tenor twelve years ago, and slate
The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . 1224.—Canongate Tolbooth. View from South-West. oak shingles, in size 13 inches by 6 inches, and tapering from half an inchto one-eighth of an inch in thickness, the thin end being at tlie top, and CANONGATE TOLBOOTH — 105 — FOURTH PERIOD. Fig. 1225.—Canongate Tolbooth. View from South-East.(Copied from a Sepia Drawing made early in this century.) FOURTH PERIOD — 106 — EDINUUKGII TOLHOOTH each secured with two or three oak pins. The shingles were taken off tenor twelve years ago, and slates substituted. A large clock projects out into the street between the two is omitted from the Sketch, as it does not seem to be original. Itis shown, however, in the Sketch (Fig. 1225), which is taken from adrawing made in the beginning of this century. We have here a step in advance of the earlier fortified tolbooths. Thetower, beneath wliich an arched passage leads to a close behind, is therepresentative of the earlier town house of the keep plan, and evidentlyserved, from the form of the upper windows and the gratings over theothers, both as belfry and prison. Adjoining the tower, and entered byan outside stair, is a structure apparently of the seventeenth century,containing the chamber for the assembly of the tow
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