Church Of St Lawrence

The Church of St. Lawrence is a parish church located on London Road in Broughton. It dates from the 14th and 15th centuries and was restored in the 19th century. The building is constructed of stone with lead roofs and features plain parapets. The west tower is embattled and consists of three stages, supported by diagonal buttresses. The church has an unaisled nave and a south porch, which includes three windows; the western window of the porch is 14th century with reticulated tracery, while the two eastern windows are in the Perpendicular style. The south doorway retains an old door with original ironwork. The chancel was rebuilt in the 19th century and includes a roodloft staircase to the north of the chancel arch.

Inside, there is a pulpit from the late 17th or early 18th century. Under the altar, there are several black marble monuments dedicated to the Chester family. On the south wall, there are fragments of brasses belonging to the de Broughton family from the 14th and 15th centuries, and on the north wall, there is a 17th-century monument to Thomas Duncombe, framed by an eared architrave and a broken segmental pediment. The nave features remarkable wall paintings from around 1400, which were restored by Professor Tristram in the 1930s. On the south wall, there is a large depiction of St. George and the Dragon, while the north wall displays a Doom and a Pieta, designed as a sermon against swearing. The chancel has stained glass windows on the east and south sides, created in 1894 by Kempe, and a south window in the nave from 1864 by A. Gibbs. The church is graded I for its wall paintings.