By the early 20th century the Rivington Hall, farm and barns were owned by Lord Leverhulme and on his instructions the architect Jonathan Simpson made further substantial alterations to the barn.
The founder of the village and employer of its residents, William Lever, was anxious to have a memorial to commemorate those of his workers who had been lost in the First World War.
William Hesketh Lever is interred with his parents at Christ Church, Port Sunlight.
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He arranged for a new marble floor and the communion dais was finished with polished Hopton Wood stone.
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Port Sunlight was a model village built for the workers at the soap factory of Lever Brothers, founded by William Lever.
In Lever Park, Rivington near Chorley, William Lever built a folly which is a scale replica of Liverpool Castle in ruins.
His son, Sir William Forwood, chairman of Liverpool Overhead Railway, let the house to William Lever (later 1st Viscount Leverhulme), builder of the soap factory and model village at Port Sunlight, in 1888.