Broughton church, dedicated to St. Andrew, is a Grade II * listed building and goes back a thousand years. However, like most English parish churches, its fabric evolved over the centuries, most notably in the Middle Ages. Evidence of its Norman origin lies in the typical zigzag arch ('dogtoothing') in the South porch, not visible unless you go through the door. As the village of Broughton probably goes back to Anglo-Saxon times, the first church would have been wooden, of which nothing remains today.

The first stone church would most likely have lacked the present aisles, and the Norman door would have been moved to its present position when the aisles were added in the 13th - 15th centuries. The church we see today is principally Gothic (C13 - 15). It's likely that the C16 Reformation led to the removal of the Rood loft across the Chancel arch, and also the lady chapels from the 2 aisles. However there is little evidence of further alterations to the fabric until the Victorian period. Indeed it would appear that the Chancel fell into some disrepair in C18 and early C19 as by 1828 the Rev'd Douglas, a son of the then Duke of Buccleuch helped to pay for its restoration in the original Gothic style.

The next major re-ordering of the interior of the church occurred in the 1850s when box pews and a Jacobean triple decker pulpit gave way to modern pewing and a stone pulpit in 1867. The organ, then situated in the Tower loft, was moved to its present position in the Chancel. The most recent re-ordering took place in 1991 when a nave altar was established under the Chancel arch necessitating the pulpit's move into the South aisle. It was subsequently removed altogether from the church in 2000.
The 2 wall monuments in the Chancel are both dated 1631 and are in memory of Rev'd Robert Bolton and Harold Kynesman.

There are tablets in memory of Zachary Rose and Elizabeth Henchman, as well as a memorial tablet remembering the fallen of 2 World wars, underneath a memorial window. The only remaining medieval glass is in fragments in the East window of the South aisle; the rest is Victorian or early C20.
The C17 clock is one of the oldest in England. Thus, like many small English parish churches, St. Andrew's has changed and developed over the millennium, surviving and reflecting the ups and downs of the nation's history.