Maghull Chapel

Maghull Chapel is a late 13th-century chancel and north Unsworth chapel of a former parish church, with later alterations. The west wall and the west bay of the south wall were rebuilt in 1883 after the nave was demolished, and the bell turret was reused from the nave built in 1775. The building is constructed of stone with stone slate roofs and stone coped gables. The east end features diagonal buttresses and a central buttress, with the chancel having a 2-light window with Perpendicular tracery, while the chapel has a 3-light window with intersected tracery. The west end includes south angle buttresses and an octagonal turret above, along with a string course cornice, a cupola with a ball finial, and four lancet openings. The chapel porch is gabled with a pointed double-chamfered entrance, leading to a round-headed inner entrance with octagonal jambs and a wide-boarded door framed with glazed quatrefoils. There is also a round-headed entrance to the chancel, a lancet window in the chapel, and triple lancets in the chancel. The south side has two straight-headed windows of two lights with creped ogee heads, while the north side features a buttress.

Inside, the chapel has a 2-bay arcade with double-chamfered arches on a round pier and 19th-century scissor-braced roofs. The chancel includes sedilia and a piscina recess, though the canopy is missing. There are remains of the north side of the chancel arch and wall paintings to the south of the east window, which has tracery dating from the 1883 restoration. Iron railings are present in the arcade, along with some late 18th-century and early 19th-century wall memorials, including a board commemorating the church's enlargement in 1830. An octagonal font has a 19th-century base and cover, and there is a stone vessel of uncertain purpose at the west end of the chancel. The chapel also contains a late 17th-century chained prayer book and book of homilies, a bible from 1830, and some early 17th-century chairs and a bench. Additionally, there is a baluster for a sundial from 1781 on the sill of the west window. Maghull Chapel is an important medieval survival in an area with few such buildings.