Stonehaven Tolbooth
Location | Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire |
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Coordinates | 56°57′39″N 2°12′08″W / 56.96074°N 2.20210°W |
Security class | Originally used as a courthouse and then a prison |
Opened | late 16th century by George Keith |
Website | Stonehaven Tolbooth Website |
The Stonehaven Tolbooth is a late 16th-century stone building originally used as a
Early history
The Stonehaven Tolbooth is thought to have been founded by
By 1685, there are further accounts of the Stonehaven Tolbooth functioning as the seat of justice for all of Kincardineshire (the former shire of this district that was eventually subsumed into Aberdeenshire). Over the winter of 1748–1749, three Episcopalian clergy were incarcerated for the crime of holding a religious ceremony to more than nine people at the (now ruined) chapel situated on the estate grounds of nearby Muchalls Castle along the ancient Causey Mounth.[7] The Episcopalians were associated with the Jacobite cause and discriminated against by the ruling Hanoverians. The imprisoned clergymen's plight was memorialised in a well known painting, illustrating a baptism of an infant through the bars of the prison. The painting belongs to the diocese at Brechin.[8]
Episcopal services were held in the Tolbooth from 1709, when Dunnottar parish church became part of the Church of Scotland, until an Episcopal meeting house was erected in Stonehaven High Street in 1738.[9]
History after 1766
When new county
Architecture
The original rectangular building was constructed with the long axis being east–west, with a length of 18.9 meters The construction is of Old Red Sandstone, a locally derived stone that was used in other local buildings of the same period such as
Interior features
The north block (17th-century addition) floor retains original
See also
- Bellman's Head
- Carron Water
- Dunnottar Castle
- Fetteresso Castle
- Fowlsheugh
- Ury House
- List of Category A listed buildings in Aberdeenshire
- List of listed buildings in Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire
References
- ^ Archibald Watt, Highways and Biways around Kincardineshire, Stonehaven Heritage Society (1985)
- ^ David Bertie, Scottish Episcopal clergy 1689-2000, T and T Clark Publishing, Edinburgh, Scotland
- ^ Bryce, Julia (31 March 2023). "Owner of Aberdeen's popular Cafe Boheme to take over Stonehaven's Tolbooth restaurant". Press and Journal. Retrieved 18 May 2023.
- ^ a b c d Historic Environment Scotland. "Old Pier, Old Tolbooth of Stonehaven including Boundary Walls and Gates (Category A Listed Building) (LB41655)". Retrieved 20 March 2019.
- House of CommonsJournal London, England, (1600)
- ^ "Stonehaven Tolbooth". Prison History. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
- ^ John Paul Hill, Episcopal chapel at Muchalls (1956)
- ^ Clerk, Pauline Margaret. "Baptism at Tolbooth (copy of George Washington Brownlow)". Art UK. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
- ^ "BrMS 9 Records of St James' Church, Stonehaven". Archive Services Online Catalogue. University of Dundee. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
- ^ Tolbooths and Townhouses: Civic Architecture in Scotland to 1833, Tolbooth Museum, Stonehaven
- ^ "Model of War Memorial". Stonehaven Tolbooth Museum. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
- ^ C.Michael Hogan, Sigvard Richardson and Peter Graves, History of Muchalls Castle, Kincardineshire, Scotland, Lumina Press, Aberdeen (2004) Archived 2007-03-28 at the Wayback Machine