City Heritage Sites

Liverpool Pioneers’ Memorial Park

Bound by the Macquarie, Campbell and Northumberland Streets and the Hume Highway, Liverpool. Liverpool Pioneers’ Memorial Park, approximately 2ha in area, was originally St Luke’s cemetery.

The park has been a major burial ground for the district since 1821, and is associated with prominent pioneers and their families. The park retains many memorials of historic and aesthetic significance.

All Saints Catholic Church

Corner of George and Elizabeth Streets, Liverpool (northeast corner). Built in 1963, this building is an example of post-world war 2 ecclesiastical architecture.

The foundation stone of the All Saints Catholic Church was laid on 11 August 1963 by the Reverend JP Carroll Auxiliary Bishop to his Eminence NT Cardinal Gilroy.
Built to an unorthodox barrel-shaped plan, the slender, closely spaced exposed structural ribs, together with the narrow vertical slits of amber glass, convey a strong vertical dominance which is visually carried through to the needle-like metal spire surmounting the roof of the church.
The whole building has the feeling of gothic inspired simplicity.

Milestone

Corner George and Elizabeth Streets, Liverpool (southwest corner). This simple sandstone milestone features finely incised inscriptions in Roman lettering. The milestone’s design suggests it pre-dates the 1854 milestones between Campbelltown and Liverpool.

Bigge Park

Bigge Park was a part of he original early 19th century commons planned by the surveyor Meehan for the own of Liverpool. The park once extended to Scott Street and much of the present development dates back to the 1950’s.

TAFE NSW - South Western Sydney Institute

College Street, Liverpool

In 1810, a small single-storey hospital was based on the TAFE site. The hospital opened in 1830 and continued to operate as a hospital until 1851, when it became a government asylum.

The Liverpool State Hospital and Asylum operated from 1918-1958. In 1961, the buildings became the Liverpool Technical College.

Old Courthouse 

251 Bigge Street, Liverpool

The former Liverpool Courthouse was commissioned to be built in the late 1820s although it was not actually constructed until the 1850's, remaining a working courthouse until 1972.
The building retains an early courtroom feel with much of the early cedar furniture, including the judge’s podium, jury and court recorder’s box, still in place.

Liverpool Public School

Bounded by Crawford Service Way and Bigge, Railway and Moore Streets, Liverpool.

The first school building on the Liverpool Public School site, designed by government architect George Allen Mansfield, was erected in 1871. Other buildings were added in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Liverpool Weir

Heathcote Road, Liverpool

Liverpool Weir was constructed in 1836 to supply water to the town and served as a causeway across the Georges River. The weir was designed by Australia’s first major bridge builder, David Lennox.

Liverpool Weir was the town’s only crossing until the first bridge was built in 1894. A wharf and ship basin were also constructed at the weir and boats up to 140 tons carried timber and farm produce to Sydney via Botany Bay.

Today the weir maintains the ecology of the Upper Georges River by dividing the salt water from the fresh water.

Ingleburn Military Camp

The Ingleburn Army Camp, one of Australia’s major army camps from 1939-1970s, is of considerable historic significance as the first purpose-built infantry training camp for World War 2.

It played a central role in the mobilisation of Australia’s citizens and in their military training throughout the war and was the assembly point for the first military contingent assembled for overseas service in the war.Ingleburn Army Camp is also significant for its role in the training of personnel for the Korean and Vietnam Wars. The Army Camp was a major centre in Australia for training under the National Service Scheme (1951-1972) and it is also associated with the anti-conscription movement.

The Army Camp also played a major role in the training of Army Reserves from 1973 through to the 1990s. Ingleburn Army Camp is of social significance as a symbol of the service given by generations of soldiers who trained there and as a place where respect for and remembrance of that service has become a continuing and highly valued tradition. It has social value to those who lived, and worked at the army camp. Ingleburn Army Camp has a long association with a State-wide "Army community", and is a place where this sense of community is expressed, celebrated and passed on.

It also serves to symbolise to the community the role of the Army within the area.