Tolbooth, Main Street, Clackmannan is a Grade A listed building in the Clackmannanshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 June 1960. Tolbooth, market cross, stone. 2 related planning applications.
Tolbooth, Main Street, Clackmannan
- WRENN ID
- watchful-tallow-aspen
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Clackmannanshire
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 June 1960
- Type
- Tolbooth, market cross, stone
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Clackmannan Tolbooth: The belfry tower, built about 1680, with attached crowstepped gable wall is the surviving west end of the tolbooth which was first built in 1592. It is approximately square in plan and is built of buff-coloured rubble with sandstone dressings and grey off-set quoins, the plain walls rise to a moulded cornice. The roof has an ogival spire surmounted by a weathercock. There is a door on the south wall and rectangular openings at the lower stages with round arched openings at the belfry stage. There are clock faces, probably 19th century in date, on the east and west sides. The gable wall of the tolbooth has strip quoins.
Clackmannan Market Cross: The cross, probably dating from the 17th century has a square stone shaft with chamfered corners. It is tapered at the bottom and has a trefoil capital. The east and west faces of the capital have weathered coats of arms with the chief and saltire of the Bruce of Clackmannan, that on the east still discernible as such. The ball finial is a replacement of 1887 (or 1897). The cross is raised on an octagonal eight-coursed stone base which replaced similar steps in 2007. The second step from the top on the south side is inscribed 'MMVII'.
Clackmannan Stone: The capstone, thought to date from the third or second millennium BC, was broken in pieces at an early date and bound together with iron rods. It is supported on a massive irregularly shaped whinstone block erected in 1833.
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