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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26600624

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Recommended Books

• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
• 
  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)