Albert Square, Manchester
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![The fountain in Albert Square, erected for the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria.](../../../upload/thumb/f/f9/Albert-Square-Manchester-Fountain.jpg/200px-Albert-Square-Manchester-Fountain.jpg)
![Statue of Oliver Heywood.](../../../upload/thumb/a/a2/Albert-Square-OliverHeywood.jpg/200px-Albert-Square-OliverHeywood.jpg)
![Statue of John Bright.](../../../upload/thumb/9/92/Albert-Square-JohnBright.jpg/200px-Albert-Square-JohnBright.jpg)
![Grade II listed statue of James Fraser (1818-85), Bishop of Manchester (1870-85). (Thomas Woolner, 1888).](../../../upload/thumb/6/6f/Albert-Square-Statue.jpg/200px-Albert-Square-Statue.jpg)
Albert Square is a public plaza in Manchester, England.
It lies in front of Manchester Town Hall Grade I and features the monuments:
- A canopied memorial to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha by architect Thomas Worthington with a figure of Albert by Matthew Noble, (1862-1867) Grade I
- Bishop James Fraser by Thomas Woolner, (1887) Grade II
- Oliver Heywood by Albert Bruce-Joy, (1894) Grade II
- William Ewart Gladstone by Mario Raggi, (1901) Grade II
- John Bright by Albert Bruce-Joy, (1891) Grade II
- A fountain (also designed by Thomas Worthington) erected for the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, (1897).