Branch Meetings

Article from page 12 of Dickon Independent issue 46

Evening Tour Of The Lenches - August 17

We had a lovely evening for this leisurely drive round the Lenches, a cluster of villages just south of Inkberrow. Some very desirable properties round here, many of them black and white, and beautiful post boxes too. These were housed in plastered walls with thatched roofs, or half-timbered, with shields adorning the surrounds.

Our first stop was at St Peter’s in Abbots Morton. Most of the building is fourteenth and fifteenth century. There is a deserted village site behind the church. Then to Rous Lench with its fine Norman church, also dedicated to St Peter. Inside the church are some fragments of the Herefordshire School of Sculpture, far to the east of the centre of its activities, like those we saw at Billesley Trussell.

Church Lench came next, the largest of the Lenches, with its church dedicated to All Saints. Inside this restored medieval church are the remains of an early sixteenth century blue velvet cope, reworked into an altar frontal.

Then it was back to base at Inkberrow and time to relax and gossip in The Bull, the Archers’ pub.

Pam Benstead

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