I nearly forgot this! Anyway, this week's entry is:
LYCH GATE. A covered wooden gateway with open sides at the entrance to a churchyard, providing a resting place for a coffin (the word lych is Saxon for corpse). Part of the burial service is sometimes read there.
From the Penguin Dictionary of Architecture, Third Edition.
If you search on "lych gate," you get a raft of interesting photos of places and verbal descriptions. Apparently, the term is much more obscure to me than to others. Posted by Terry Oglesby at April 29, 2005 02:37 PM