There was a priest at Church Lench in 1086, when the manor was held by the abbot and convent of Evesham; the existence of a church at that time is also suggested by the prefix 'church'. Abbot Walter (1077-86) granted the manor to Urse d'Abitot, Sheriff of Worcestershire; Urse's grandson, William de Beauchamp, held it at a survey of the Abbey's lands, probably takenc.1150. The advowson belonged to the abbots of Evesham, but it passed into the hands of the Beauchamps after 1208.