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Albert Square 21 / Mount Street
(St Andrews Chambers)

Almsgiving and St. Andrew

Description

The building was built by George Tunstall Redmayne in 1874 for Scottish Widows, the life assurance society.
Above the entrance at Albert Square is a roundel with a relief of almsgiving, a seated female figure distributing a large coin from her box marked fvnd to a kneeling elderly woman. To the other side stands a boy, already with a pouch of cash to save with the Society.
At the Mount Street side is on a pilaster a statue of Saint Andrew.

Manchester - Almsgiving and St. Andrew

Sculptor

Earp and Hobbs Ltd. Founded in 1864 when Thomas Earp went into partnership with Edwin Hobbs Sr. (c. 1841-1904).

Sources & Information

Manchester History, St. Andrew's Chambers - Scottish Widow's Building.
Bob Speel, Sculpture in Albert Square, Manchester.
Terry Wyke and Harry Cocks, Public Sculpture of Greater Manchester, Liverpool University Press 2004, p. 48 (some parts on Google books).

Locatie (N 53°28'43" - W 2°14'43") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: gbnw022; Photograph: 17 June 2023
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