Tolbooth Steeple
Seven-stage stone tower crowned by flying buttresses, sole survivor of a seventeenth-century tolbooth.
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This guide to the Tolbooth Steeple in Glasgow treats the tower as a made object: the stone it is cut from, the mason who raised it in the sixteen twenties, and the scar on its west side left by the building it once belonged to. It follows John Boyd, Glasgow's Master of Works, from the day he started pulling down the old tolbooth on this spot. Stand back across Glasgow Cross, where you can take in all seven stages at once.
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