page_title: Albert Square, Manchester
section_title: London Albert Memorial
hierarchical_section_title: Albert Square, Manchester / Monuments / Albert Memorial / London Albert Memorial
caption_attribution_description: English: The Albert Memorial with the Royal Albert Hall in the background.
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: Manchester's Albert Memorial, completed in 1865, was the first of several Albert Memorials around the United Kingdom, and it bears a noticeable similarity to the Albert Memorial in Kensington Gardens, London, which was completed some seven years after the Mancunian monument. Claims that Worthington's design influenced George Gilbert Scott in his London monument are disputed. Scott, writing in his Recollections, stated that his idea of building a medieval canopy was original, "so new as to provoke much opposition".
caption: Albert Memorial, London (George Gilbert Scott, 1872)
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