Ashleworth Tithe Barn

Ashleworth Tithe Barn is a great barn of Blue Lias limestone standing close to the River Severn, built about 1500 by the canons of St Augustine's, Bristol, while John Newland was abbot, to store the tithes, the one tenth of a farm's produce given to the Church. It forms a group with Ashleworth Court and the village church and is a scheduled monument, 125 feet long, its stone slate roof carried on a medieval timber frame of ten bays. The Trust points out the small ornate round window at one end, sized to let owls in to keep down vermin among the stored tithes. Three species of bat roost in the roof timbers, and the Trust has been repairing the stonework, particularly the buttresses, in a four-phase project planned around them. Reviewers admire the great wooden beams and the old graffiti on the walls. It is a short stop: a bare barn with no frills, still used by the neighbouring farm, with a couple of information boards.