page_title: Tolbooth
hierarchical_section_title: Tolbooth
caption_attribution_description: English: An engraving based on an eighteenth century painting by Alexander Naysmith (9 September 1758–10 April 1840)
context_page_description: A tolbooth or town house was the main municipal building of a Scottish burgh, from medieval times until the 19th century. The tolbooth usually provided a council meeting chamber, a court house and a jail. The tolbooth was one of three essential features in a Scottish burgh, along with the mercat cross and the kirk.
context_section_description: A tolbooth or town house was the main municipal building of a Scottish burgh, from medieval times until the 19th century. The tolbooth usually provided a council meeting chamber, a court house and a jail. The tolbooth was one of three essential features in a Scottish burgh, along with the mercat cross and the kirk (church).
caption: An etching showing the Old Tolbooth, Edinburgh before it was demolished in 1817.
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