El Alamein Memorial Fountain; Fitzroy Gardens Group; Kings Cross Fountain; King's Cross Fountain
Type
State heritage (built)
Designated
14 January 2011
Reference no.
1847
Type
War Memorial
Category
Monuments and Memorials
Location of El Alamein Memorial Fountain in Sydney
The El Alamein Memorial Fountain[1] is a heritage-listed fountain and war memorial located at Macleay Street in the inner Sydney locale of Kings Cross in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by the Australian architects Robert Woodward and Phill Taranto as employed by architectural firm Woodward and Woodward.[2][3][4] The fountain was built from 1959 to 1961. It is also known as El Alamein Fountain, Fitzroy Gardens Group, Kings Cross Fountain and King's Cross Fountain. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 14 January 2011.[5][6] The El Alamein Fountain was commissioned as a memorial to soldiers who died in 1942 during World War II in two battles at El Alamein, Egypt.[7]
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^The Architecture of East Australia by Bill MacMahon. Axel Menges, 2001. ISBN 3-930698-90-0. Google Books copy accessed July 2008
^Neville Crocker Australia Pty Ltd NCA Technical Data Sheet Sphere Fountain Archived 24 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine (PDF). Accessed July 2008
^Dreiseitl, Herbert; Dieter Grau; Karl H.C. Ludwig (1 April 2001). Waterscapes: Planning, Building and Designing with Water. Basel, Switzerland: Birkhäuser Basel. p. 174. ISBN 3-7643-6410-6. Archived from the original on 4 March 2012. Retrieved 16 March 2010.
^"El Alamein Memorial Fountain". New South Wales State Heritage Register. Department of Planning & Environment. H01847. Retrieved 14 October 2018. Text is licensed by State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) under CC-BY 4.0 licence.
^Within Cooee: Sydney. Accessed July 2008
^City of Sydney official website Archived 25 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed July 2008
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