Known as Little St John chapel, the Chapel of St John of Jerusalem or the chapel of St John's Hospital. Originally attached to the Hospital of St John without the Northgate. The hospital survived the Reformation and in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century the hospital masters continued to appoint chaplains to say daily prayers for the almspeople and others, including debtors in the city gaol. The chapel was destroyed during the siege in 1644, but rebuilt at some point between 1660 and 1697. In 1703 the corporation took over the wardenship, and refurnished the interior to seat the mayor and alsermen, and appointing as chaplain the minister of St Peter. It was taken down and rebuilt as part of the Blue Coat building in 1715-17. 'The living came to be regarded as a perpetual curacy serving the tiny extra-parochial district of the former hospital precinct, whose inhabitants comprised the almswomen of the hospital, the master and boys of the Blue Coat school, and until 1808 the prisoners of the Northgate gaol'. VCH, Cheshire, V.ii, 157. Gastrell noted that, 'It was lately repaired or rebuilt by the City for the use of the almswomen of the adjoining Hospitall, and the prisoners of the Northgate, and they allow 10li. p. an. to the person who officiates there, who is appointed by the Min[ister] of St Peter', Gastrell, I, 102-3.