[2] The church probably dates from the 14th century, rebuilt about 1513 by the Molyneux family.

[1] Originally known as Burgh Chapel,[3] the church was a chapel of ease to St Andrew's Church, Leyland and was used as a Roman Catholic chapel until the late 17th or early 18th century, when it was transferred to the Church of England.

[1][4] The church was originally built as a chapel for Euxton Hall and bears a date stone with the initials of one of the Molyneux family[5] who were the owners of the chapel and Euxton Hall from the 14th century.

Having evolved from a small family chapel into a local parish church, the exterior of the church has seen several stages of modifications, the most recent being the addition of a porch, which was built at the front of the church in 1998 using a similar red sandstone taken from the barn of Eli Heaton (who had served as church verger for over 45 years, having been appointed on 13th December 1951[6][7]).

Notably, in the nave there is a double piscina and sedilia which have been dated from around the first 50 years of the 14th century.