How To Use Lychgate In A Sentence
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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
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“He could wait outside the lychgate,” I offered, but it was no use.
To Say Nothing of the Dog
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Even the bus stop looks like a church lychgate.
Times, Sunday Times
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The most notable of these is the 14th century St Georges Church with its 13 th century lychgate - the oldest in England.
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Sheila Wexford put an Umbrella up and made an elegant dash towards I | he - lychgate.
Put On By Cunning
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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.
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Their magnificent white-painted trellised lychgate that provided seating for two had a classical roof grassed with turf.
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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.
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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
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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
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The church itself is usually surrounded by its graveyard, in which might be found a lychgate, cross, anchorage, bell tower, school, and a priest's house.
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One monument that has already benefited is the lychgate at All Saints Church, Crudwell.
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The lychgate of a field showed Father Conmee breadths of cabbages, curtseying to him with ample underleaves.
Ulysses
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Even the bus stop looks like a church lychgate.
Times, Sunday Times
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Externally the building is approached through a lychgate, which enhances the feeling of seclusion, and a beautifully simple porch.
