741 Botolphia

741 Botolphia is a 29.6-km diameter minor planet orbiting in the asteroid belt, discovered by American astronomer Joel Hastings Metcalf on 10 February 1913 from Winchester. It is named after Saint Botolph, the semi-legendary founder of a 7th-century monastery that would become the town of Boston, Lincolnshire, England. This asteroid is orbiting at a distance of from the Sun, with an orbital period of and an eccentricity of 0.07. The orbital plane is inclined at an angle of 8.41° to the ecliptic.
Photometric data collected during 2007 were used to produce an asteroid light curve showing a rotation period of, with a brightness amplitude of 0.015 in magnitude. This result is consistent with earlier results by independent observers. 741 Botolphia was initially classified as an X-type asteroid, but it may instead belong to the M-type taxonomy.