Broughton is a village in the Test Valley district of Hamoshire, 10 miles N of Romsey. The church is in the centre of the villlage, and is a flint rubble church with brick and ashlar dressings. It consists of an aisled and clerestoreyed nave with 3 -bay arcades, N and S porches and a W tower, and a chancel remodelled in the 19thc with a N vestry added. The nave is 12thc., the N arcade late-12thc and the S arcade early 13thc. The tower is 15thc as is the clerestorey. Early in the 17thc, the church was damaged by fire, for which there is evidence in the N arcade, especially around pier 1. The chancel was almost completely rebuilt at that time, and its E end rebuilt again in the 19thc. The N porch, of brick, is 19thc as is the flint vestry. The S porch was rebuilt in 1921. Only the late-12thc. N arcade is recorded here, but a photograph of the later S arcade is included.

Broughton was held by King Edward before the Conquest and King William thereafter. There was ni account of the hideage in the Domesday Survey, but there were 2 ploughs in demesne and 23 households there. The manor was given by King John to Payn de Maure and was later forfeited to William Percy and then to Fulk de Montgomery, who gave it to John Maunsel, Keeper of the Seal. The church was a chapelry attached to Mottisfont in 1086, and was part of the property of Thomas, Archbishop of York. It later became a rectory whose advowson belonged to the Office of Treasurer of York Cathedral.

The presence of trumpet scallops on at least one of the N arcade capitals suggests a date at the end of the 12thc, perhaps c.1170-90. The moulded E respond capital is typologically later, though not of the same build as the S arcade, which must be later still, perhaps c.1220, although the arches of both arcades are similar.