The Albert Memorial at Junction with Brighouse Road is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 1985. Memorial.
The Albert Memorial at Junction with Brighouse Road
- WRENN ID
- dim-nave-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Bradford South MP: Judith Cummins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1985
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- The Albert Memorial at Junction with Brighouse Road, High Street
- OS grid reference
- SE 103 302
- Coordinates
- 53.76844, -1.8437
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Albert Memorial, located at the junction with Brighouse Road in Queensbury, is a memorial dedicated to Prince Albert, dated 1865. It was designed by Eli Milnes of Bradford for John Foster & Son. The memorial is constructed of ashlar and stands as a tall Gothic structure on a four-step podium. At the base, there are red-granite drinking water fountains, and on two sides, there are well-carved panels depicting foliage, one featuring a swan and the other a heron.
On a third side, a bronze plaque commemorates Prince Albert, stating: "ALBERT PRINCE CONSORT of Her Majesty / Queen Victoria who died December / the 14th AD 1861. / This monument was erected by / John Foster & Son: whitsuntide 1863." Above the base, there are well-carved allegorical figures representing Agriculture, Industry, Literature, and Fine Art, each placed in canopied niches with red-granite colonnettes. The structure features diagonal buttresses that end in tall crocketed pinnacles. At the top, there is an octagonal stage with diaper-work at the base and a central pedestal surrounded by red-granite colonnettes, which support the gable treatment at the base of the tall central spire, topped with a cross finial.
Local climate
The Albert Memorial at Junction with Brighouse Road sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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