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Lych gate

The present lych gate was erected in memory of Rev. Anthony Thomas Morland, who died in 1920, and was restored in 2004. "Lych" is the old English word for corpse, and its function was to enable the coffin bearers to rest while waiting for the funeral procession to assemble behind.

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