Albert Square, Manchester

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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).

Coordinates: 53°28′46″N, 2°14′42″W