The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Blackburn (now)
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.
Parish church, formerly hospital chapel
Stydd is a small collection of buildings - the church, cottages, a farm and an 18thc Roman Catholic church - a very short walk from Ribchester. The church is a single-celled building, with an Early English S doorway, and an E window with intersecting tracery. The N wall has two small lancets, while the S wall has a very tall narrow one. The W wall has a Y-tracery window, and a blocked opening high up. The monastic buildings seem to have been to the N of the church, but excavations have not proved conclusive. There are now some sheds erected over the area.