Ashby Parva is a small village in the Harborough district of S Leicestershire, 10 Miles S of Leicester and 2½ miles NW of Lutterworth. The church stands on the main street through the village at its northern end, and consists of a nave with a N porch and a blocked S doorway, a chancel with a small S vestry and a W tower. In the N wall of the nave is a rood stair. The nave appears to have been widened to the S, leaving the chancel off centre. The N doorway is of c.1300, but the nave windows are late 14thc. The low W tower is unbuttressed but appears to be late 14thc. The chancel and porch were rebuilt in the Decorated style by J P St Aubyn in 1866. The tower was restored in 1899, and the font was returned to its Victorian location W of the N doorway in 2008. This font is the only Romanesque feature recorded here.

Ashby Parva was held by Godwine before the Conquest and by Robert de Bucy in 11086. It was assessed at 2 carucates with 8 acres of meadow. No church was mentiontioned in the Domesday Survey. Patronage of the church wa sin the hands of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem as early as 1220, and it remained so until 1556 when it passed to the Crown.

The closest local parallel for the font bowl is that at Staunton Harold, a chapel founded in 1653 by Sir Robert Shirley, 3 years before he died in the Tower of London. That is apparently a medieval bowl too, as it has repairs necessitated by lock removal.