page_title: Albert Square, Manchester
section_title: Notable buildings
hierarchical_section_title: Albert Square, Manchester / Notable buildings
caption_attribution_description: English: Manchester Town Hall and Albert Memorial Español: Ayuntamiento de Manchester y Albert Memorial
context_page_description: Albert Square is a public square in the centre of Manchester, England.
  It is dominated by its largest building, the Grade I listed Manchester Town Hall, a Victorian Gothic building by Alfred Waterhouse. Other smaller buildings from the same period surround it, many of which are listed.
  The square contains a number of monuments and statues, the largest of which is the Albert Memorial, a monument to Prince Albert, Prince consort of Queen Victoria. The square, named after the Prince, was laid out to provide a space for the memorial in 1863–67. Work on the town hall began in 1868 and was completed in 1877.
context_section_description: Albert Square is bounded by a varied selection of listed Victorian buildings, the largest being the town hall. Only the western side of the square (facing the town hall) has lost its original buildings and is now occupied by brick and glass office blocks erected during the 1980s. Buildings in Albert Square include:
  Manchester Town Hall (1868–77) – neo-Gothic sandstone ashlar local governmental building on a triangular site, with a 280 ft (85 m) bell tower, housing a carillon of 23 bells, designed by Alfred Waterhouse for Manchester Corporation. Contains mural paintings by Ford Madox Brown.
  the Abbey National building (c.1900), Grade II listed – Neoclassical Portland stone bank by Percy Worthington with semicircular front.
  Albert Chambers, 16 Albert Square (1873), Grade II listed  – Venetian-style sandstone ashlar offices designed by Clegg and Knowles for Manchester Corporation Gasworks.
  Carlton House (formerly Bridgewater Buildings), 17–18 Albert Square (1872), Grade II listed  – Venetian Gothic-style sandstone ashlar office buildings by Clegg and Knowles.
  St Andrew's Chambers, 20–21 Albert Square (1874), Grade II listed  – Neo-Gothic sandstone corner building designed by George T. Redmayne for the Scottish Widows Fund Life Assurance Society.
  The Memorial Hall, by architect Thomas Worthington for the Unitarian Church (1866), Grade II* listed, Southmill Street corner.
caption: Albert Memorial in front of the town hall
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