Church Of St Bartholomew

The Church of St Bartholomew is a parish church located on Main Street in Kirby Muxloe. It dates back to the early 13th century, with alterations made in the 14th and 15th centuries, particularly to the tower. The church underwent significant restoration in 1849 and again between 1857 and 1858, with further work on the tower in 1891. A vestry and organ chamber were added in 1927. The building is constructed from granite and slate rubble, featuring limestone dressings and some ashlar facing on the tower, topped with Swithland slate roofs.

The church comprises a nave, a south tower, a chancel, and a north vestry/organ chamber. It has 19th-century offset buttresses and gable copings. The windows, which have Y-tracery in double hollow-chamfered surrounds with hoodmoulds, were all renewed in the 19th century. The nave features a three-light west window adorned with carved heads at the stops and apex, three bays of two-light windows on the north side, and two similar windows on the south side. The south tower has two stages, with a moulded string and eaves, a pyramidal roof, and a weathercock. It includes short diagonal buttresses and a late 14th to 15th-century bell chamber with two-light traceried openings and single cusped ogee lights below. The south door, accessed through the tower, has a moulded two-centred arch with a hoodmould. There is a small 20th-century boiler room located in the southwest angle between the tower and the nave.

Inside, the church features 19th-century roofs, with the nave roof supported by scissor trusses on carved foliage corbels. The chancel arch is double-chamfered with an inner order on semi-octagonal piers. There is a small arched niche in the south wall of the nave and a small arched piscina in the chancel. The vestry and organ chamber are connected by two arches. The fittings, dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries, include a carved stone reredos with panels for texts and early 20th-century glass. A wall tablet in the chancel commemorates Francis St John, who died in 1732, and features a broken pediment.