Euxton Parish Church

Euxton Parish Church is a church that likely dates from the 14th century and features late medieval elements, with a chancel added in 1837. It is constructed of sandstone rubble and has a stone slate roof. The building is small and aisleless, showing signs of early rebuilding. The west front includes diagonal buttresses, a 19th-century arched doorway with a hoodmould, and a datestone above it inscribed with "1573 IDP," although the date may actually be "1513." Above the doorway is a 19th-century stepped triple-lancet window with a hoodmould that follows the heads, and at the apex of the gable is a part-corbelled square bellcote made of ashlar, possibly from the early 18th century.

On the north side wall, there is a large buttress in the center, with a low doorway to the left featuring a 2-centred double chamfered arch, and three 2-light windows that are similarly arched with cusped tracery. The masonry of this wall includes some large dressed blocks and shows evidence of early alterations. The south wall has a similar buttress and four windows that match those on the north side, with the first and third appearing to be original. An arched tear-line in the wall near the east end indicates the position of a former south doorway.

Inside, the church has a single vessel along with a small 19th-century chancel. The roof features an arch-braced kingpost design, likely from the 16th century, with two tiers of cusped windbraces, although the westernmost truss is a modern copy. The south wall includes a coupled piscina and sedile with moulded round arches and hoodmoulds, while the north wall incorporates an aumbry.

Historically, the church was formerly known as Burgh Chapel and is said to have been built in 1513 by Sir William Molyneux, the lord of the manor, as a chapel-of-ease to Leyland Parish Church. It remained private property of the Molyneux family and was used as a little-used Catholic chapel from the Reformation until it was transferred to the Established Church in the early 18th century.