Fleetwood Memorial Park Gate

Fleetwood Memorial Park Gate is a Baroque park gateway built in 1902, likely designed by Thomas Lumb, with gates added in 1926 by H H Martyn & Co. The structure features painted iron gates set within a painted rendered-brick archway.

The gateway is linear in design, consisting of a central arch flanked by smaller arches and short stub walls. It is located at the main eastern entrance to Memorial Park off Park Avenue, directly opposite Warrenhurst Road. The gates frame Remembrance Avenue, which leads to the park's war memorial, and are an important part of the vista created by Abercrombie.

The central arch is double width and is flanked by coupled engaged columns with heavy blocking at the base. The side arches are flanked by rusticated square pilasters. Each arch features a tall projecting keystone and capital mouldings at the jambs where the arch begins. Above the arches is a dentilled cornice, with the words ‘MEMORIAL PARK’ attached, and a balustrade over the central arch. The stub walls display metal numbers indicating the dates of the First and Second World Wars on the left and right sides, respectively. These design elements are repeated on the park elevation and the narrow returns.

The gates share a similar design, featuring a margin of circles, central panels of vertical bars with circles below, and a lower panel with a central sunburst design. The center gates have shouldered hinges topped with an anthemion finial, while the outer gates are adorned with a moulded horizontal bar supported on scrolled feet. Each of the central gates has brass plaques depicting a soldier and a marine.