Broughton (Huntingdonshire) 

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Historical notes about the Parish of Broughton (Huntingdonshire)

Broughton has two old friends in a sleepy green hollow, the Elizabethan rectory with the garden where a rector tended his flowers for over 60 years, and a church in which he preached thousands of sermons.  He was Robert Hudson, and a tablet tells us he was greatly loved for his long ministry, which covered so much of the 18^th century.  In his garden there is still an ancient stone coffin complete with lid.

The church has a tower and spire of about 1500, and a 14^th century chancel between two walls built by Normans.  They gave the font its fine arcading about the year 1100.  Two notable pieces of 15^th century art the church possesses, the work of carvers and painters who fought at Bosworth Field.  In the roof of the nave is an angelic orchestra with a striking figure of St Andrew among the choir, and over the chancel arch is a series of paintings finely preserved, probably by artists of the same generation.  One painting shows a Resurrection scene, another the Day of Judgment, and there are quaint pictures showing Adam and Eve before and after they were driven from the garden.

There are two birds keeping watch on a Jacobean chair, a few 16^th century pews, fragments of 16^th century glass, and a brass of which everything is gone save the head and legs of Lawrence Martin.  Behind the pulpit is the old turret stairway to the roodloft.

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