Queen's Cross is area in the west-end of Aberdeen

Aberdeen

Aberdeen is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 25th most populous city, with an official population estimate of ....

, Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

. It is located just west from the main Union Street and about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from the geographical town centre at Mercat Cross.

Queen's Cross itself is the intersection of Fountainhall Road, Queen's Road, St Swithins Street, Albyn Place and Carden Place. There is a roundabout with Queen Victoria's bronze statue in the middle. She is facing west, looking up Queen's Road towards Balmoral

Balmoral Castle

Balmoral Castle is a large estate house in Royal Deeside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is located near the village of Crathie, west of Ballater and east of Braemar. Balmoral has been one of the residences of the British Royal Family since 1852, when it was purchased by Queen Victoria and her...

- her summer residence. It was originally erected by the royal tradesmen of the city at the south-east corner of St Nicholas Street and Union Street

Union Street, Aberdeen

Union Street is a major street and shopping thoroughfare in Aberdeen, Scotland.It was built, along with the adjoining King Street, in the beginning of the 19th Century under plans suggested by Charles Abercrombie to provide an impressive entrance way into the city, and nearly bankrupted the city...

 in 1893, replacing an earlier (1866) marble sculpture by Alexander Brodie (removed to the Town House in 1888) but was moved to its present location in 1964.

There are two Church of Scotland

Church of Scotland

The Church of Scotland, known informally by its Scots language name, the Kirk, is a Presbyterian church, decisively shaped by the Scottish Reformation....

 churches, Queen's Cross Church

Queen's Cross Church, Aberdeen

Queen's Cross Church is a congregation of the Church of Scotland. It is located at the intersection of Carden Place and Albyn Place, at Queen's Cross in the heart of Aberdeen's west end business community...

 and Rubislaw Church

Rubislaw Church

Rubislaw Church is a Church of Scotland parish in the Queens Cross area of Aberdeen, Scotland. It has a recently refurbished church centre on Fountainhall Road.-External links:**-See also:*List of Church of Scotland parishes*Queens Cross Area...

 at the intersection and also St Joseph's Primary School.

The surrounding buildings and their streets are typical of the Victorian period it was built in. They are built of the local gray granite

Granite

Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...

.

The Queen's Cross area, particularly Queen's Road and Albyn Place is home to the offices of many finance businesses who have moved into the old Victorian mansion houses. There are also a number of exclusive restaurants and bars in the area.

This area is considered by many in the local area as the centre point of the West End of Aberdeen.