Albert Memorial is a Grade I listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1963. A C19 Memorial. 1 related planning application.
Albert Memorial
- WRENN ID
- tangled-cupola-vermeil
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1963
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Albert Memorial, Albert Square, M2 5DB
- OS grid reference
- SJ 838 981
- Coordinates
- 53.47953, -2.24523
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Albert Memorial, located in Manchester, is a Grade I listed memorial dedicated to Prince Albert. It was constructed between 1862 and 1865 by architect Thomas Worthington, with a statue created by Matthew Noble. The memorial is primarily made of sandstone, featuring a statue of white marble. It is designed as a large Gothic ciborium or canopy, inspired by the 13th-century church of Santa Maria della Spina in Italy. The structure has a square base and includes tall, two-centred arched openings on each side, topped with steep gables adorned with carved decorations. The corner piers are topped with tall canopies that have shafts and intricately carved crocketed tops, housing statues that represent Art, Commerce, Science, and Agriculture. At the top, there is an octagonal spire with a crocketed peak and a delicate wrought-iron open-work finial. The memorial is raised on a base with a moulded plinth and bands of heraldic panels, and it stands on a podium of five steps. This memorial was the first major tribute to Prince Albert to be completed and may have served as a prototype for the Albert Memorial in Kensington, designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott.
Local climate
Albert Memorial 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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