The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
none recorded (medieval)
Parish church, formerly chapel
Woodplumpton, from approach, seems like an entirely post-medieval church. The S aisle was apparently built in 1748 in a rather English Baroque manner. The crennelation however suggests it was a refacing of a Late Perpendicular wall. Inside its medieval origins are clearer. There are two arcades, no chancel arch, similar to nearby St Michael on Wyre. The capitals on the S are extremely crude and may be post-Reformation. The end wall of the N aisle is in a different stone and suggests this was the first medieval expansion. There is an early 20thc vestry built on the E end of the N side of the N aisle. Set into what was originally the N aisle outer wall, are some Romanesque fragments found c. 1900.
Parish church, formerly chapel
The medieval church was demolished except for the tower in 1823. There are no surviving images of the church of Broughton, but it seems to have been plain, late Gothic like the surviving tower, with through arcades and no chancel arch, typical of the area. Some fragments of this church are in the chancel S wall. The body of the church was replaced by a commissioners-type single-roofed, ashlar-faced box with lancets. A chancel was added 1905-6 by Austin and Paley.
Church (ruin)
A single cell church (25.9 m x 7.26 m) constructed from roughly coursed basalt with limestone detailing. The church has doors in N and S walls, an E window of 17thc. date and two narrow-headed lancets in the N wall. The aumbry, in the S wall, is richly moulded and dates to the early 13thc. The entire church was used for worship until 1827, when the nave was shortened to 16.15 m. The remaining section of the nave was left unroofed. It ceased to be used for worship in 1842.