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Inverness Town Steeple, formerly known as the Inverness Tolbooth, is all that remains on the High Street in Inverness, Scotland. (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)).
The first tolbooth in the town, referred to as the "Steeple of Inverness" dated back to at least 1593. The tolbooth was rebuilt in 1690 and benefited from its clock being repaired by Thomas Kilgour in 1692. Although repairs were carried out in 1732, the tolbooth was described as very dilapidated and in need of replacement by 1786.
Construction work on a new tolbooth, on the north-west side of Bridge Street, started in April 1789. It was designed by Alexander Laing in the neoclassical style, built by John Symens and William MacDonald in ashlar stone at a cost of £1,497 and was completed in May 1791. The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage, consisting of a courtroom block and a seven-stage tower, facing onto the High Street. In relation to the tower, there were three round headed openings in the first stage, a blind Venetian window in the second stage, a round headed window breaking into an open pediment in the third stage, rounded headed openings with louvres flanked by pairs of pilasters supporting an entablature with triglyphs in the fourth stage, clock faces in the fifth stage, an octagonal belfry in the sixth stage, and an octagonal platform in the seventh stage, all surmounted by a spire and a weather vane. The local member of parliament, Sir Hector Munro, contributed £105 towards the cost of the clock. The clock was designed and manufactured by James Bridges of Glasgow and the hour and quarters were struck on a set of three bells, with a "ting-tang" for the quarters. Internally, the principal rooms were a courtroom, which was 33 feet (10 m) long and 18 feet (5.5 m) wide, four prison cells, a guardroom, a jury room and a witness room.
The building, which is currently used to accommodate a private business, is Category A listed.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverness_Town_Steeple
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