Queen Victoria Monument is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1974. Monument.
Queen Victoria Monument
- WRENN ID
- empty-granite-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1974
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Queen Victoria Monument, Piccadilly
- OS grid reference
- SJ 843 982
- Coordinates
- 53.48111, -2.23664
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Queen Victoria Monument, located in Manchester, was completed in 1901 and designed by Onslow Ford. This monument is made of Portland stone and features bronze statuary. It has a square plan and is designed in the Baroque style. The monument is set on a base of six wide steps, leading up to a low plinth with a moulded foot and cornice. Atop this plinth is a large stone throne, which has a back designed as a Baroque aedicule with a broken pediment. This pediment is decorated with a shield of arms and swags, and features a bronze grotesque emerging from it. The centerpiece is a bronze statue of Queen Victoria seated on the throne. The rear of the monument includes engaged Corinthian columns and a round-headed arch that frames a statue of an allegorical female figure nursing two babies.
Local climate
Queen Victoria Monument 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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