---
title: "St Andrew, AylestoneAylestone"
description: "Located in AylestoneAylestone, Leicestershire. Built 13th–15th century; restored 1894 and 1902; porch rebuilt 1926. Diocese of Leicester. Grade II*. Early English and Decorated style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Church of England","Leicestershire","Aylestone","Leicester","Grade II*","Medieval","Broach spire"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/aylestone-st-andrew"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T01:13:50.445Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-07T14:52:17.010Z"
location: "AylestoneAylestone, Leicestershire"
country: "England"
county: "Leicestershire"
town: "AylestoneAylestone"
address: "Old Church Street, AylestoneAylestone, Leicestershire, LE2 8ND"
postcode: "LE2 8ND"
built: "13th–15th century; restored 1894 and 1902; porch rebuilt 1926"
denomination: "Church of England"
dedications: ["Andrew"]
diocese: "Leicester"
grade: "II*"
style: "Early English and Decorated"
materials: "Local random rubble with freestone dressings; graded-slate chancel roof; copper-sheet nave and aisle roofs"
website: "https://www.standrewsaylestone.com/"
openingHours: "Please contact us to arrange a visit."
parish: "Aylestone St Andrew with St James"
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1074054"
accessNotes: "Accessible toilets nearby. Level access to the main areas"
---

# 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](https://www.standrewsaylestone.com)
- [Historic England list entry 1074054](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1074054)