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Church Entrance, Gawsworth
© John Godley (view gallery)

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Englefield, Berkshire.
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St Mark's Church at Englefield, Berkshire.

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St. Peter's Church
© Neil H (view gallery)
St. Peter's Church, rebuilt in 1771. The Parish Register dates from 1690.

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Welford, Berkshire
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St Gregory's Church, Welford, Berkshire.

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Hambleden
© lucsa (view gallery)
entrance to the church

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St Marys Church, Freeland
© Karen Lee (view gallery)

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Through the gateway
© Vince Hawthorn (view gallery)
St Mary's Church within Portcheter Castle

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Lych gate of St. Leonard's Church, Watlington
© Edward Lever (view gallery)

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Lynchgate at St. Lawrences
© Sue Bristo (view gallery)
Early morning winters sun through the Lynchgate at St. Lawrences Church at Longridge, in Lancashire.

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St. Mary the Virgin
© Sue Bristo (view gallery)
The lychgate at St. Mary the Virgin Church a beautiful medieval Church in a charming village of Goosnargh, in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire.

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Lych Gate, St Peter's Church
© Victor Naumenko (view gallery)
A lych gate is a gateway covered with a roof found at the entrance to a traditional English churchyard. The name comes from the Old English for a corpse (lic) and was traditionally where the clergy met the corpse for burial.

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Church Lychgate
© Peggy Cannell (view gallery)

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St. Jame's Church, Avebury
© Stephen (view gallery)

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St. Peter & St. Paul's, Farningham
© Stephen (view gallery)

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St Botolph's Church Skidbrooke
© Tom Doncaster (view gallery)
lychgate

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Dore Abbey
© Martin Wall (view gallery)
A BRIEF HISTORY of DORE ABBEY. The Abbey was founded in 1147 by French Cistercian Monks from Morimond. Construction of the present stone buildings in the ‘new’ early English style started in 1175 and was consecrated in 1275. Cistercian monks were not academic recluses but were skilled at managing their agricultural lands. In Dore’s case breeding sheep with fine wool. The wool was of exceptional quality and was sold in Italy. The Abbey avoided being razed by Owen Glendower in 1405. It was suppressed (dissolved) by Henry VIII in 1537 and the buildings sold to Lord John Scudamore. All the monastic buildings and the nave and roof of the Abbey were dismantled and the stone sold by Scudamore. All that remained (i.e. the present Abbey) was left as a roofless ruin until c1630. John Scudamore’s great-great-grandson (John Viscount Scudamore) had no male heir, all his sons having died at birth or soon after. Archbishop Laud suggested that his ancestor had perhaps overdone the commercial benefits of the dissolution and that a penance may help. Restoring the ruins into a Parish Church was deemed an appropriate penance and the rebuilt church was re-consecrated in 1634. Subsequently, Scudamore’s wife had a son who survived ! Laud had considerable influence on the restored church. The Screen through which the raised altar can be seen by the congregation was one of his innovations. His coat of arms together with those of Lord Scudamore and Charles I are on the Screen. The Church was further restored, first around 1700 when the wall paintings were created and later around 1900 when the Church was ‘shrunk’ into what had been the presbytery. The Church you see today has been little altered since the 1900 rearrangement.Today it enjoys regular Church services, has a fine organ and is the venue for many concerts.

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Village Church
© Adam Swaine (view gallery)

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Church Porch at Spetchley
© Adie Ray (view gallery)

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St Michael and All Angels' Church.
© TheHermit (view gallery)

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Uggeshall Church Lychgate
© Peggy Cannell (view gallery)

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St Just in Roseland
© Pat Trout (view gallery)
A picture of St Just in Roseland Church, Cornwall

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Lych Gate
© Karen Lee (view gallery)

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ST. CLEMENT CHURCH LYCH GATE
© Vince Hawthorn (view gallery)
The lych gate at St. Clement's Church can be seen here from the church and shows the windows of the room over the entrance.

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Clodock Parish Church
© Martin Wall (view gallery)

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St. Margarets Church Lychgate
© Peggy Cannell (view gallery)

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Church Lychgate.
© Peggy Cannell (view gallery)

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The Lych Gate, St. Mary's Church
© Marilyn Harris (view gallery)

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Lych Gate at Doddington Hall Church
© Marilyn Harris (view gallery)

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St Peter's Church Llanbedr
© Martin Wall (view gallery)
Llanbedr is a small village and is two miles from Crickhowell. A Church was built in Llanbedr in 1060 and the present Church was built on that site in the 14th and 15th centuries. The Church had some alterations in the 19th century. The Church is made of stone and has many stained glass windows. Inside are many pillars to support the structure. There is also a large porch with two benches in it, a Lych gate which is the main entrance to the Churchyard. Not everything in the Church is old as there are modern gutters and bars on the windows. The Brute family lived in Llanbedr and produced tablets which are on the Church walls. More of the colourful tablets from the 18th and 19th centuries can be found in the area. The Church opens for worship with usually a service at 9.30 or 10.30 a.m. on three Sundays a month.

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All Saints Church Gate, Didcot, Oxfordshire.
© Ima Von Wenden (view gallery)

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Entranceway to church in Dulverton
© William Bedell (view gallery)

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All Saints Church in Wouldham, Kent
© Chris Norcutt (view gallery)

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St Marys Church in Launton, Oxfordshire
© Bill Jordan (view gallery)
Traditional English style lychgate

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Bramerton St. Peters
© Peggy Cannell (view gallery)

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St Bartholomew's Church.
© Ken Bolton (view gallery)
St Bartholomew’s Church Marsden is situated at the head of the Colne Valley. The picturesque hilly moorland and pastures of the south Pennines border the West of Yorkshire and Lancashire.

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Filleigh Church
© Christine Fereday (view gallery)
Nurtured by the Fortesque family since C15th, beautiful ceilings and stained glass.

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St. Michael & All Angels Church, Pinhoe near Exeter in Devon.
© Sean Creech (view gallery)

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Lychgate to Church to St Peter
© Nick Hodgett (view gallery)
GII listed wall and lychgate. Official listing description: Late C19. Wall of rubble stone. Lychgate of timber with Collyweston stone slate roof, clay ridge tiles and small iron cross above. Arts-and-Crafts Gothic in style, and inscribed

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All Saints Church
© Sean Grogan (view gallery)
The only Church in the Village

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Chorleywood
© Chris Williams (view gallery)

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This is the entrance to the Eastnor church, Herefordshire
© James M Hardy (view gallery)

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Entrance to Moreton graveyard, Dorset
© Phil Jobson (view gallery)

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Pinner
© Chris Williams (view gallery)

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Parish Church, Clifton, Ashbourne, Derbyshire.
© Graham Young (view gallery)

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Lychgate, Baslow, Derbyshire
© Barbara Whiteman (view gallery)
This roofed lychgate is where the coffin awaits the arrival of the cleryman before a funeral service.

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Brundall Church Lychgate
© Peggy Cannell (view gallery)

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Lychgate
© Peggy Cannell (view gallery)

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The Parish Church of St. Martin, Bladon, Oxon. Winston Churchill's resting place.
© Ken Jarvis (view gallery)

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Lychgate at St Margaret's Church, Drayton, Norfolk
© Lionel Bird (view gallery)

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Kelsale Church, Lychgate
© Peggy Cannell (view gallery)

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Holy Trinity Church, Coverham, North Yorkshire.
© Janice Serginson (view gallery)

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St Peter's Church, Peter Tavy, Devon
© Mavis Hewitt (view gallery)

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Rame church's lych gate
© Hilary Hoad (view gallery)
The lych gate of any church is designed to shelter the coffin on the way into the church. Rame church's lych gate actually has a bier to rest the coffin on, marked with a cross.

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Chilmark in Wiltshire
© Graham Rains (view gallery)
Looking down on part of the village through the Church Lychgate.

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A picture of St Fagans
© David Roberts (view gallery)
Near the Museum of Welsh Life, St Mary's Church at St Fagan's on the western edge of Cardiff, in the Spring of 2002.

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Lych Gate, St. Nicholas Church, Silton
© Penelope Williamson (view gallery)

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Revolving Lychgate at the Parish Church. May 2009
© Mary Davey (view gallery)
The newly refurbished revolving Lychgate at Cruwys Morchard Parish Church. May 2009.

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A picture of Clarborough
© Barbara Whiteman (view gallery)
The gateway to St John the Babtist Church in the village of Clarborough, Nottinghamshire. A village split in half by a very busy road from Retford to Gainsborough.

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A picture of Littleborough
© Barbara Whiteman (view gallery)
Littleborough, Nottinghamshire. The church gateway of St Nicholas Church which is now conserved. This is an area of Roman Settlement.

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Cranleigh, Surrey
© Frances Brown (view gallery)
Cranleigh, Surrey St Nicholas CoE Church The Porch and Lych Gate Both the porch and the lych gate were designed by Henry Woodyer. The Porch was erected in 1864 in memory of a local doctor, Jacob Ellery of Ridinghurst who also set up the obelisk on the corner of the Ewhurst Road. The splendid stone lych gate was erected in 1880 as a memorial to John Bradshaw of Knowle

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Church gates - Drewsteignton
© Barbara Whiteman (view gallery)
This is a lovely gateway to Trinity Church in the centre of the village

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