Heywoods Statue is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. Statue.
Heywoods Statue
- WRENN ID
- twisted-outpost-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Statue
- Address
- Heywoods Statue, Albert Square
- OS grid reference
- SJ 838 980
- Coordinates
- 53.47933, -2.24537
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The statue of Oliver Heywood, a Manchester banker and benefactor, was created in 1894 by Albert Bruce Joy. It features a polished granite pedestal and a marble statue. The square pedestal stands on a base of two steps with concave tapered sides and an inscription on the east side, topped with a moulded cornice. The statue depicts a standing figure dressed in a top coat.
Local climate
Heywoods 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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