St Andrew, Aylestone

St Andrew’s is the Grade II* medieval parish church of Aylestone, Leicester, a thirteenth- to fifteenth-century church with a broach spire on Old Church Street, in the Diocese of Leicester.

Overview

Historic England lists a parish church of the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries, restored in 1894 and 1902, with the porch rebuilt in 1926. Materials are local random rubble with freestone dressings, an ashlar porch, a graded-slate chancel roof, and copper-sheet roofs to nave and aisles. The plan is an aisled nave with a higher chancel, west tower, south porch and north-west vestry. The broad three-stage tower has a broach spire with two tiers of lucarnes. Aisles have intersecting or reticulated tracery; the long chancel is four bays. The nave keeps a late-medieval king-post roof.

Aylestone was a village absorbed into Leicester in the late nineteenth century. The listing notes a re-set triangular-headed window in the tower interpreted as Anglo-Saxon and a fragment of twelfth-century masonry. The core is thirteenth century (tower, spire, nave and north aisle); the south aisle is fourteenth century; the unusually large early-fourteenth-century chancel has no documented collegiate use; the clerestory is fifteenth century. The parish is Aylestone St Andrew with St James, in the Diocese of Leicester. The D1 title repeats the place-name; this article uses Aylestone, Leicester.

Further Information

• St Andrew’s, Aylestone
• Historic England list entry 1074054