Albert Memorial Clock
Albert Memorial Clock. Queen's Square.
"A freestanding memorial clock tower built 1869 to commemorate Prince Albert, in a mix of French and Italian Gothic style to designs by W.J. Barre, located in Queen’s Square, Belfast. Rectangular on plan, approximately 110 ft tall, with a slightly lean off the perpendicular. The clock comprises base, shaft, clock stage and belfry stage and is largely constructed of ashlar Scrabo sandstone; several ornamental elements were reinstated c.2000. Square three-tiered tapered stone base with crocketted and gabletted flying buttresses to each centre and corner, those to corners supporting heraldic lions bearing a shield carved with an ‘A’; the third stage of the base, from which the flying buttresses project, is enriched with a Gothic arcade carried on slender colonettes with foliated capitals, each spandrel carved with an individually detailed roundel".
"...the Albert Memorial, an over 30m high clock tower with the statue of Prince Albert in a niche on the W. side (1868)".--Baedeker 1906
A. HB Ref No: HB26/50/055
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