dc.coverage.spatial | Site: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom | en_US |
dc.coverage.temporal | 1591 (creation); 1879-1884 (alteration) | en_US |
dc.creator | unknown (Scottish) | en_US |
dc.date | 1591 | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-10-03T14:45:09Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-10-03T14:45:09Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1591 | en_US |
dc.identifier | 237057 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | archrefid: 2688 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/144808 | |
dc.description | Detail, Canongate Tolbooth (1591), carving on gable of dormer with thistle finial and dentils below (added in 1884); Canongate Tolbooth was built in 1591 as a tolbooth, that is, a courthouse, burgh jail and meeting place, for the then separate burgh of the Canongate. Commissioned by justice-clerk and feudal superior of the Burgh, Sir Lewis Bellenden (initials carved above the Tolbooth Wynd pend), in a French Renaissance ("Franco-Scottish") style with conical-capped bartizans. The building is now occupied by The People's Story Museum. A distinctive clock, dating from 1884, juts out from the side of the tower to overhang the street. A major interior alteration in 1879 combined the attic and first floor, the area now used by the museum. A reworking of the exterior also by Robert H. Morham, 1884, included the projecting clock, dormered windows with thistle finials and dentilled cill course. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 7/6/2012) | en_US |
dc.format.medium | stone | en_US |
dc.rights | © Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc. | en_US |
dc.subject | architecture | en_US |
dc.subject | timekeeping | en_US |
dc.subject | Museology | en_US |
dc.subject | Restoration and conservation | en_US |
dc.subject | city government | en_US |
dc.subject | Renaissance | en_US |
dc.subject | Sixteenth century | en_US |
dc.title | Canongate Tolbooth | en_US |
dc.type | image | en_US |
dc.rights.access | Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only | en_US |
dc.identifier.vendorcode | 1A2-SC-E-TVOT-A58 | en_US |
vra.culturalContext | British Scottish (Scots) | en_US |
vra.technique | construction (assembling), carving (processes) | en_US |
vra.worktype | courthouse | en_US |
dc.contributor.display | unknown (Scottish) | en_US |