Tolbooth

An etching showing the Old Tolbooth, Edinburgh before it was demolished in 1817.
Musselburgh Tolbooth in East Lothian
Crail Tolbooth in Fife

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).