David Lewis records (for the new building) ' it "was a red brick building with white stone dressings' .

The 1913 church was bombed 29th September 1940 and it was one of the first Liverpool Churches to be bombed. It is the 1913 church which was destroyed and not the old one, the relocation of the latter took place 27 years before the bombing and was not related to it. Regardless of which, all church records were lost in 1940.  After bombing the 1913 building remained closed until it was rededicated and reopened exactly 16 years later on 29th September 1956. The final incarnation of the church was reconstructed, with the addition of a new church hall. The architect was H. A. N. Woodall.

The 1913 church was demolished in 1985, except for the rear wall. The 1956 hall, at the back of the property, then became the church shown above and it retained some of the original Gothic windows and stained glass, which can still be seen. Flats have been built on the part of the 1913 church which was demolished.

May 2005

David Lewis (1) places the Hamlet Free Baptist Church next to Sefton Park Library and opposite St Michael's Road.  However the 1905 OS map (6f) shows no church on this site. The 1905 map does show a 'Free Church'  higher up Aigburth Road, opposite Alwyn Street. This was the earliest Hamlet Free Church but it no longer exists.

I know nothing of the earlier Church. An 1889 map shows the building, but it is not identified. I think we can assume the church started in a former house.

In 1913 the Hamlet Free Church, aka Hamlet Baptist Church opened on Aigburth Road, next door to the Library. The old building continued to be used and the OS map, surveyed in 1924, confusingly shows both buildings labelled as a 'Free Church'.

Many thanks to Marky for taking & sending this picture. To Brian Jones for history obtained from the present congregation. Also to Philip Mayer for extensive notes regarding the chronology of the relocation, rebuilding and fate of this church.

(1) The Chuches of Liverpool, 2001, Bluecoat Press, ISBN 1 872 568 769