The village of Lemeshki, also known as Lemeshki, is located 13 versts from the city of Vladimir. According to tradition, it was formed from peasants relocated here from various places by landowners, of whom there were five in the village. In 1692, landowner Stepan Andreevich Teofilatiev built the first church here, consecrated in the name of the Ascension of the Lord. A priest, a deacon, a sexton, and a prosphora-baker were appointed to serve the church. The landowner allocated 10 quarters of arable land and hay meadows for them.

In 1726, at the request of Alexander Teofilatiev from the village of Oslavskoye, an old wooden church was transported here, from which another warm church was built in Lemeshki, consecrated in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker.

In the early 19th century, a stone church was built on the site of these two churches; its warm chapel was consecrated in 1808, and the main altar in 1824. In 1857, a stone bell tower was added to the church. The church has three altars: in the cold one, in the name of the Ascension of the Lord, and in the warm chapels, in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and the Mother of God 'Joy of All Who Sorrow'.

Church documents have been preserved in full: copies of the metric books since 1780 and confession lists since 1823. A chapel on the Nizhny Novgorod highway is attributed to the church, the reason for its construction is unknown. Another chapel in the village of Grezina was erected in memory of the apparitions of Saint Martyr Paraskeva.

The church has 1 dessiatina of homestead land, 27 dessiatinas of arable land, and 3 dessiatinas of hay meadows, for which there is a plan. The staff includes a priest and a psalmist. Their income amounts to 650 rubles a year, including interest from capital of 550 rubles, as well as income from services, needs, and land. The houses of the clergy are located on church land. The parish includes the village of Lemeshki and the villages of Kvashnina, Grezina, Sobolikha, and Novaya Bykovka, where according to clerical records, there are 519 men and 549 women. A public school, funded by the zemstvo, operates in the village of Lemeshki.