Asfordby is a village in the Melton district of the county, 2½ miles W of Melton Mowbray and 11 miles NE of the centre of Leicester. The River Wreake flows to the S of the village. The church stands on a short lane on the S side of the main street through the village, and is dominated by a W tower with a tall spire. The clerestoreyed nave has 3-bay aisles which extend westwards flanking the tower. There is a 1 bay N transept with an organ and a 2-bay S transept. The chancel is long, and square ended. The tower is 15thc. with diagonal buttresses and a spire recessed behind a battlemented parapet. The S arcade, with cylindrical piers and moulded capitals except for the E respond capital which is enriched with a few sprigs of stiff-leaf, is 13thc. while the N arcade with its octagonal piers and more elaborate mouldings must be 14thc. The chancel and its arch are 14thc. too as are the sedilia with their ogee heads. In the N transept is a two-tier piscina, and this is the only Romanesque feature of the church.

Asfordby belonged to the manor of Rothley, held by the king in 1086 and assessed at 12 carucates of ploughland with 2 mills. Of this 3½ carucates were held from him by Ralph Framen, a King's Sergeant. The manor was given by Robert of Meulan, 1sy Earl of Leicester (d. 1118) to St Mary de Castro, Leicester. When that college closed in 1143 all of its endowments were transferred by Robert of Meulan's son Robert de Bossu to the canons of a new Augustinian abbey in Leicester.

This type of piscina is more commonly found in a 13thc or later context, especially in the double form with a credence shelf. It is therefore almost certain that the chevron is an added or reset adornment. The N transept is now a storage area but it was presumably once a chapel, in which case the siting of the piscina would be reasonable.