NOUN
- a roofed gate to a churchyard, formerly used as a temporary shelter for the bier during funerals
How To Use lychgate In A Sentence
- Before long he found that there would be no sea this way: nor anything but shops, houses, a cinema with an imposing Victorian front grandly labelled ASSEMBLY ROOMS, and the slate-roofed lychgate of a church. Greenwitch
- “He could wait outside the lychgate,” I offered, but it was no use. To Say Nothing of the Dog
- Even the bus stop looks like a church lychgate. Times, Sunday Times
- The most notable of these is the 14th century St Georges Church with its 13 th century lychgate - the oldest in England.
- Sheila Wexford put an Umbrella up and made an elegant dash towards I | he - lychgate. Put On By Cunning
- Jean points out quite rightly that it should be lychgate - the place where coffin bearers paused to get their breath, rather than breathe their last.
- Their magnificent white-painted trellised lychgate that provided seating for two had a classical roof grassed with turf.
- 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.
- By the time I had trotted back, cursing most foully, the rest of the chase was thundering up; Bismarck was waiting at the lychgate looking cool and smug when we arrived. Royal Flash
- Mark had paused as a matter of course by the lychgate, supposing that with a squire like Sir Charles the inside should be of unusual interest. The Altar Steps
