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Stonehaven Tolbooth

16th-century architecture in the United Kingdom16th-century establishments in ScotlandBuildings and structures completed in the 16th centuryCategory A listed buildings in AberdeenshireDefunct prisons in Scotland
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Old Tolbooth Museum, Old Pier, Stonehaven
Old Tolbooth Museum, Old Pier, Stonehaven

The Stonehaven Tolbooth is a late 16th-century stone building originally used as a courthouse and a prison in the town of Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Constructed of local Old Red Sandstone, the prison probably attained its greatest note, when three local Episcopalian clergymen were imprisoned for holding services for more than nine people (a limit established to discourage the Episcopalian religion in the mid-18th century). Lying midway along the old north quay of the Stonehaven Harbour, the present day Tolbooth serves as a local museum with a restaurant on the floor above the ground floor. It is a category A listed building.

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Old Tolbooth Museum, Old Pier, Stonehaven
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