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Latitude: 53.5754 / 53°34'31"N
Longitude: -0.0755 / 0°4'31"W
OS Eastings: 527523
OS Northings: 410480
OS Grid: TA275104
Mapcode National: GBR WWX3.G1
Mapcode Global: WHHHS.TD7C
Plus Code: 9C5XHWGF+5Q
Entry Name: Statue of Prince Albert in Front of Dock Offices
Listing Date: 31 October 1974
Last Amended: 30 June 1999
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1379874
English Heritage Legacy ID: 479315
ID on this website: 101379874
Location: Prince Albert Gardens, North East Lincolnshire, DN31
County: North East Lincolnshire
Electoral Ward/Division: West Marsh
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Grimsby
Traditional County: Lincolnshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lincolnshire
Church of England Parish: Great Grimsby St Andrew with St Luke and All Saints
Church of England Diocese: Lincoln
Tagged with: Statue
GRIMSBY
TA2710SE ROYAL STREET, The Docks
699-1/12/139 (East side)
31/10/74 Statue of Prince Albert in front of
Dock Offices
(Formerly Listed as:
CLEETHORPES ROAD
(North side)
Statue of Prince Albert (in front of
Dock Offices))
GV II
Statue of Prince Albert. 1879, moved C20. Bronze figure,
polished granite plinth.
Life-size figure in ceremonial costume, holding plans. Right
side of base inscribed "MODELLED by W. THEED of LONDON, CAST
by CH. LENZ of NUREMBERG". Plinth bears inscriptions on all
sides. To front: "The new dock connecting the Royal Dock with
the Old Dock was opened by their Royal Highnesses the Prince
and Princess of Wales on the 22nd July 1879". To the left
side: "Albert, Prince Consort, Born 26th August, 1819 Died
14th December 1861. He laid the foundation stone of the Royal
Dock, Great Grimsby on the 18th April 1849, and the Dock was
opened on the 27th May 1852". To the right side: "To
commemorate the inauguration and completion of these great
works this memorial has been erected by Sir Edward William
Watkin, MP, Chairman of the Manchester, Sheffield and
Lincolnshire Railway Company 1879". To the rear is an
inscribed excerpt from Prince Albert's speech.
Statue was moved in mid C20 from its former position on the
south side of Cleethorpe Road, 90 metres to the south-west,
beside the Custom House (qv).
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, and Antram N:
Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 342; Grimsby Planning Department:
Action for Conservation: Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-).
Listing NGR: TA2752310480
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