St Mary's Church, Ashby Folville

Heritage listing

Details SK 71 SW GADDESBY CHURCH LANE Ashby Folville (east side) 9/81 Church of St. Mary 1.1.68 G.V. I Parish church. Late C13, C14, C15. Restored 1875 and between 1885 and 1913, by J. Ely. Coursed and squared ironstone and limestone ashlar, with ashlar dressings and lead roofs. C19 gabled external side wall stack. Chamfered and moulded plinth and sill bands. Crenellated chancel parapet with pinnacles, 1913. West tower, nave with clerestory, north aisle and organ chamber, chancel, south aisle and chapel, south porch. West tower, C15, 3 stages, has angle buttresses, 2 string courses, moulded plinth, linked hood mould, lozenge frieze, 4 gargoyles, crenellated parapet and 4 pinnacles, one of them with a weathercock. First stage has, to west, a double lancet. Second stage has to west a quatrefoil light. Third stage has 4 transomed double lancet bell openings. All the openings have hood moulds and stops. Clerestory, 4 bays, has coped east gable. On each side, 4 triple lancets, those to north more ornate and with panel tracery. All have hood moulds and stops. North aisle, 3 bays, has 3 buttresses, 3 setoffs. West end has early C14 Decorated double lancet. North side has to east, 2 C14 cusped triple lancets with coved reveals, and to west, restored cove and roll moulded C13 doorway with filleted double shafts and studded door. East end has a C14 cusped triple lancet with coved reveal. All the openings have hood moulds and mask stops. Chancel, 2 bays, has rainwater heads dated 1912. North side has a buttress flanked by single late C14 segment-headed untraceried triple lancets. East end has 2 angle buttresses, sill band and coped gable with cross. Restored C15 panel traceried transomed 5 light lancet with the lower lights blocked. South side has to west, altered opening, now con

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.