Monument to Queen Victoria is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1974. Monument.

Monument to Queen Victoria

WRENN ID
south-banister-ebony
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wirral
Constituency
Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 March 1974
Type
Monument
Address
Monument to Queen Victoria, Hamilton Square
OS grid reference
SJ 325 890
Coordinates
53.3936, -3.01601
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Monument to Queen Victoria is a structure located in Hamilton Square, Birkenhead, built in 1901 by Edmund Kirby. It is made of stone and features an octagonal shaft that is raised on steps. The base has decorated traceried panels, one of which is inscribed with "Victoria Queen and Empress, 1901". At the base of the tall cylindrical shaft, there is a small traceried frieze, and the shaft is adorned with octagonal arcading made of detached silver granite shafts that end in a series of arcaded foiled gablets. This is topped by a second octagonal column with detached shafts and arcading, culminating in a short spire that has a crown finial.

Local climate

Monument to Queen Victoria sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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