Church Of St Luke

The Church of St Luke is a Grade I listed building located on Rectory Road in Upper Broughton. The church features remnants of a south arcade dating from around 1200, a north arcade from the 13th century, and a tower constructed in the 13th and 14th centuries. The porch was added in 1733, while the north aisle and chancel were rebuilt in 1855 by architect S. S. Teulon. The structure is primarily made of ironstone, with a thinly coursed sandstone porch and a blue lias chancel, all accented with limestone dressings. The roofs are lead-covered, with the chancel having a steeply-pitched tiled roof.

The nave consists of four internal bays, and the church includes a south porch, a north aisle, and a two-bay chancel, along with a west tower. The porch features a re-set quatrefoil frieze and a round-arched portal, which contains a fragment of a Norman tympanum. There are two tall south windows, one with two lights and the other with three lights, both showcasing cusped intersecting tracery. The north side has two square-headed, two-light clerestorey windows, while the later north aisle has similar but larger windows. The chancel is adorned with two-light windows, each featuring a foiled circle in the head, and a three-light east window with a star in the head.

The two-stage tower has later clasping buttresses on the lower stage, a small lancet west window, and two-light louvred openings in the bell chamber, topped with a crenellated parapet and a quatrefoil frieze. Inside, remnants of the earlier south arcade are integrated into the south wall, including a double-chamfered round arch on round piers with moulded capitals, one decorated with zig-zag patterns and the other with nailhead. The north arcade features a four-bay double-chamfered design on octagonal piers with moulded capitals also adorned with nailhead decoration. The church contains a 14th-century octagonal font with relief tracery in its panels. Notable slate memorials on the north wall include one from 1788 to John Brett, elegantly shaped and decorated with flowing foliage, signed by W. Barnes, and another from 1823 to Elizabeth, wife of John Brett, signed by Pratt of Nottingham.