lychgate in English
noun
1
a roofed gateway to a churchyard, formerly used during burials for sheltering a coffin until the clergyman's arrival.
Coun Liddington has been raising money for a new war memorial at the lychgate at Sherston church for villagers who died in the Second World War and in Northern Ireland.
noun
lichgate
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1. The lychgate of a field showed Father Conmee breadths of cabbages, Curtseying to him with ample underleaves.
2. The oldest part of the Churchyard lies on the right as you walk up the ironstone path from the medieval lychgate