Print Page
© Mr Patrick Norris
IoE Number:
387866
Location:
ALBERT MEMORIAL, ALBERT SQUARE
MANCHESTER, MANCHESTER, GREATER MANCHESTER
Photographer:
Mr Patrick Norris
Date Photographed:
09 January 2003
Date listed:
18 December 1963
Date of last amendment:
18 December 1963
Grade
I
The Images of England website consists of images of listed buildings based on the statutory list as it was in 2001 and does not incorporate subsequent amendments to the list. For the statutory list and information on the current listed status of individual buildings please go to The National Heritage List for England.
MANCHESTER
SJ8398SE ALBERT SQUARE
698-1/27/5 Albert Memorial
18/12/63
GV I
Memorial to Prince Albert. 1862-5, by Thomas Worthington, with
statue by Matthew Noble. Mostly sandstone, with statue of
white marble. In the form of a large Gothic ciborium or
canopy, to a design derived from the C13 church of Santa Maria
della Spina in Italy: square in plan, with a tall 2-centred
arched opening in each side under a steep gable with carved
enrichments, corner piers surmounted by tall canopies with
shafts and heavily carved crocketed tops, containing statues
representing Art, Commerce, Science and Agriculture, and an
octagonal spire with crocketed top and delicate wrought-iron
open-work finial. Raised on base with moulded plinth and bands
of heraldic panels, and mounted on podium of 5 steps. Under
the canopy, a statue of a standing figure, mounted on a
pedestal.
History: first major Albert Memorial to be completed; perhaps
a prototype for the Albert Memorial in Kensington, by Sir
George Gilbert Scott.