lych-gate

lych-gate
lych-gate or lych gate also lich gate (lĭchʹgāt') n.
A roofed gateway to a churchyard used originally as a resting place for a bier before burial.
  [Middle English lycheyate: lyche, corpse, body (from Old English līc. See līk- + gate, yate, gate; see gate1.]

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also spelled  lich-gate , also called  corpse gate 

      (from Middle English lyche, “body”; yate, “gate”)roofed-in gateway to a churchyard in which a bier might stand while the introductory part of the burial service was read. The most common form of lych-gate was a simple shed composed of a roof with two gabled ends, covered with tiles or thatch. Lych-gates existed in England in the 7th century, but comparatively few early ones survive because they were almost always of wood.

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