Frasers Statue is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. Statue.
Frasers Statue
- WRENN ID
- hollow-doorway-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Statue
- Address
- Frasers Statue, Albert Square
- OS grid reference
- SJ 838 981
- Coordinates
- 53.47992, -2.24492
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fraser's Statue, located in Albert Square, Manchester, is a Grade II listed statue commemorating James Fraser, who was the Bishop of Manchester from 1818 to 1885. The statue was created in 1888 by the sculptor Thomas Woolner. It features a bronze statue of a standing figure mounted on a polished marble or possibly granite pedestal. The square pedestal has a broad moulded plinth and includes bronze relief panels on three sides, topped with a prominent moulded cornice.
Local climate
Frasers Statue sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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