Church of St Bartholomew is a Grade II* listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1979. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Bartholomew
- WRENN ID
- fallow-niche-barley
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Melton
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1979
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Bartholomew, Welby Lane, Asfordby
- OS grid reference
- SK 725 209
- Coordinates
- 52.78152, -0.92626
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Bartholomew is a Grade II* listed building located on Welby Lane in Asfordby. It dates from the 14th and 15th centuries, with repairs made in the 17th century. The church was restored between 1860 and 1862 by R W Johnson. It is constructed of coursed squared ironstone and limestone, featuring limestone dressings, with Welsh slate roofs on the main body and a Swithland slate roof on the tower.
The church consists of a chancel and nave combined, a south porch, and a west tower. The east window is a three-light design with Perpendicular tracery and a hood mould. There is a two-light chamfered stone mullion window on the northeast side with a chamfered stone surround, and another two-light window in the middle of the north wall featuring a flattened arched head and hood mould. A similar window is located on the southwest side, while a two-light window on the southeast has ogee-arched heads and a quatrefoil at the top, along with a small one-light window to the left that has a cusped pointed arched head. To the right of the porch, there is a three-light window with a segmental-arched head, also with Perpendicular tracery and a hood mould.
The south door in the porch is chamfered with a flattened arched head, and the porch itself has a double-chamfered doorway. The two-stage tower features a lancet window on the west side of the bottom stage and small two-light openings in the bell chamber with round-arched heads on the east and west gables of the saddleback roof. The gables are stone-coped with kneelers on the tower, porch, and chancel. There are diagonal offset buttresses at the east end, an offset buttress at the southwest angle, and additional buttresses between the bays on the north side.
Inside, there is a small chamfered ogee-arched piscina on the north side of the altar and another chamfered arched opening, possibly an ambry, on the south side of the altar. The font is plain and octagonal, likely from the 17th century. The polygonal oak pulpit features Jacobean round arch-headed panels, with similar panels on the attached reading desk.
Local climate
Church of St Bartholomew sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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