Dovedale Baptist Church, Liverpool

The church was built in 1905–06, and designed by George and R. P. Baines. It became an independent church with its own membership roll in 1908. When Myrtle Street Baptist Church closed in 1939, the site having been sold to make way for the building of the Liverpool Hospital for Cancer & Skin Diseases, their congregation and minister (Revd K.C. Dykes) joined with the church at Wavertree. In September 2018 the church held its final service and closed its doors as a Baptist church. The Baptist Union of Great Britain negotiated the sale of the building and in 2020 it was bought by Cornerstone Church Liverpool, reopening on 4 April 2021. They meet there regularly (Sunday Mornings) where they…

Inside the church is a crossing with a four-centred arch on each side carried on thin quatrefoil columns. There is a central pulpit, in front of which is an immersion font and semicircular benches. Behind the pulpit is an organ. In the windows is coloured glass with Art Nouveau features.

The church building is located on Dovedale Road, at the junction with Barndale Road on one side and Olivedale Road on the other. The main entrance to the church is on Dovedale Road with side entrances to the church hall on both Barndale Road and Olivedale Road. The church was in membership with the Baptist Union of Great Britain, the Evangelical Alliance and Churches Together in Mossley Hill. until it closed in 2018. Its minister from 1994 to 2011 was Wayne Clarke, who was also a BBC religious broadcaster. On Sundays, the church organised Morning Worship and a Sunday Club. During the week it arranged meetings for women, and for parents and toddlers. Brownies and Guides met in the church.…