Dovedale Baptist Church, Liverpool

Dovedale Baptist Church, is in Dovedale Road, Mossley Hill, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is an active Baptist church, and the church building is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. HistoryThe church was built in 1905–06, and designed by George and R. P. Baines. ArchitectureExteriorThe church is faced with flint, an unusual building material in Liverpool, with dressings in red brick and terracotta. The roof is in slate with a cresting of red tiles. It has a T-shaped plan, consisting of a nave and transepts as wide as the nave, and a southwest tower. The tracery in the windows is Perpendicular in style. The entrance front is gabled, and contains a central doorway with a four-centred arch flanked by diagonal buttresses and two-light windows. Above this is a seven-light window. At the top of the gable are pinnacles and a traceried panel with gargoyles. This section is flanked on the left by a porch with a pyramidal roof, and on the right by the tower. The tower contains an entrance, above which is a three-light square-headed window, and over this are three-light square-headed bell openings. The tower had to be reduced in height in 1989 following concerns over structural stability; the current one is therefore truncated. The transepts are also gabled, and contain two tiers of windows. Attached to the rear of the church is a hall with gables containing five-light windows.

Dovedale Baptist Church, is in Dovedale Road, Mossley Hill, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is an active Baptist church, and the church building is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. HistoryThe church was built in 1905–06, and designed by George and R. P. Baines. ArchitectureExteriorThe church is faced with flint, an unusual building material in Liverpool, with dressings in red brick and terracotta. The roof is in slate with a cresting of red tiles. It has a T-shaped plan, consisting of a nave and transepts as wide as the nave, and a southwest tower. The tracery in the windows is Perpendicular in style. The entrance front is gabled, and contains a central doorway with a four-centred arch flanked by diagonal buttresses and two-light windows. Above this is a seven-light window. At the top of the gable are pinnacles and a traceried panel with gargoyles. This section is flanked on the left by a porch with a pyramidal roof, and on the right by the tower. The tower contains an entrance, above which is a three-light square-headed window, and over this are three-light square-headed bell openings. The tower had to be reduced in height in 1989 following concerns over structural stability; the current one is therefore truncated. The transepts are also gabled, and contain two tiers of windows. Attached to the rear of the church is a hall with gables containing five-light windows.