Dovedale Baptist Church
DOVEDALE BAPTIST CHURCH, DOVEDALE ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L18
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1356346
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Dovedale Baptist Church
- Statutory Address:
- DOVEDALE BAPTIST CHURCH, DOVEDALE ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L18
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1356346
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Dovedale Baptist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOVEDALE BAPTIST CHURCH, DOVEDALE ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L18
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- DOVEDALE BAPTIST CHURCH, DOVEDALE ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L18
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Liverpool (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 39028 88038
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15/07/2015
SJ 38 NE
7/390
DOVEDALE ROAD, L18
Dovedale Baptist Church
(Formerly listed as Mossley Hill Baptist Church)
G.V. II
Baptist chapel. 1906. Undressed flint with brick
dressings, slate roof with red tile cresting. T-plan with
projections in angles. Central gabled entrance with 4-
centred head and diagonal buttressed flanked by 2-light
windows, and 7-light window above with 2-diagonal king
mullions rising through gable as pinnacles. Windows have
free Perpendicular tracery. Top traceried panel with
gargoyles. Porch to left is lower and projects; pyramidal
roof and diagonal buttresses. Gabled segmental-headed
entrance with fleuron and 3-light window. Tower to right
has brick base and angle pilasters, short diagonal
buttresses. Entrance as porch; 3-light square headed window
lancet and top 3-light square-headed bell openings. Cornice
with gargoyles and battled parapet. Recessed louvred top
with swept diagonal buttresses, deep eaves and ogival roof.
Returns similar; 2 tiers of 1:3:1 light windows and gable;
flanking recessed bays with parapet, 2-light windows and
segmental-headed entrances and 4-light windows above.
Church hall attached to rear has 5-light gable windows and
narthex to north. Interior: Large crossing space on rough
granite piers. Boarded roof with ribs across openings to
projections. Pews in semi-circular rows face west organ and
pulpit. East end has C20 partitioning.
Listing NGR: SJ3902888038
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 214028
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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