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The lytch-gate

..at All Saints church, Sanderstead.

A lytch-gate is a gateway covered with a roof found at the entrance to a traditional English or English-style churchyard. The term lych comes from Old English for corpse, and the corpse-gate was the route that the dead would take when being taken for burial in the churchyard.

I couldn't find any information about how old this lytch-gate is, but England's oldest lytch-gate is not far from here, in Beckenham.

 

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Uploaded on December 15, 2022
Taken on December 11, 2022