Monument to Prince Albert is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 December 1971. Monument.
Monument to Prince Albert
- WRENN ID
- rooted-bastion-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 December 1971
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Monument to Prince Albert, Abingdon on Thames
- OS grid reference
- SU 490 974
- Coordinates
- 51.6733, -1.2917
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Monument to Prince Albert, located in Albert Park, was designed by John Gibbs of Oxford and completed in 1864. The monument features a statue of Prince Albert dressed in Elizabethan costume, holding a scroll. This statue stands on a hexagonal ashlar column that is intricately carved with shields and flowers in medallions. The column is flanked by four sandstone columns topped with foliated capitals, and supported by lions holding shields. The entire structure rests on a plinth that includes a frieze and cornice adorned with carved medallions depicting the Queen's head and the royal monogram. Access to the monument is provided by four steps.
Local climate
Monument to Prince Albert sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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