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
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1985
- Type
- Memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SE15SW QUEENSBURY HIGH STREET (south side) Queensbury
5/27 The Albert Memorial at junction with Brighouse Road
GV II
Memorial to Prince Albert. Dated 1865. By Eli Milnes of Bradford for John Foster & Son. Ashlar. Tall Gothic structure on 4-step podium. Red-granite drinking water fountains at base, above which, on 2 sides are well-carved panels of foliage, one with a swan, the other with a heron. On a third side a bronze plaque reads:
"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, to each side is a well carved allegorical figure in canopied niche niche with red-granite colonnettes. Agriculture, Industry, Literature, Fine Art. Diagonal buttresses terminate in tall crocketed pinnacles. Surmounting the centre 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. Cross finial.
Listing NGR: SE1040030242
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