A Spired Village Church With Lychgate In England UK
A Spired Village Church With Lych Gate In England UK. A Lychgate from Old English, Corpse is a covered gateway to an English Churchyard. A resurrection Gate is an alternate name. Before motuaries bodies where left at the Lychgate prior to burial to avoid body snatchers. The gate itself often having a stone slab upon which the deceased was laid prior to the funeral guarded by the Vigil watchers sheltered by the gate from the elements.
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