Rous Lench, Worcestershire

Description
Lench, Rous, a village and a parish in Worcestershire. The village stands 2 miles W of the boundary with Warwickshire, 8 SW by W of Alcester, and 7 NNW of Evesham. There is a workman's club and library. The parish contains also the hamlet of Eadford, and is bounded on the N by Radford Brook. Post town, Evesham. Acreage, 1494; population, 255. Eons Lench Court dates from the reign of Henry VII.; Cromwell is said to have passed the evening before the battle of Worcester here, and here Eichard Baxter wrote part of the " Saints' Everlasting Rest." The manor belonged formerly to the Rons family, but in 1876 it was acquired by Rev Dr Chafy. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £220 with residence. The church is Norman with Early English additions, a Ecus memorial chapel, N aisle (on old foundation), and large vestries, erected in 1885. It contains a triangular-headed recess of pre-Norman work, probably for reservation of the sacrament, and an octagonal font. An archaic figure of our Lord, seated upon a cherubic throne in the attitude of benediction, in a Late Norman niche, is over the S door. There are many monuments to the Eons family.