Definition of "lychgate" []

• A roofed gate to a churchyard, formerly used as a temporary shelter for the bier during funerals (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "The lychgate of a field showed Father Conmee breadths of cabbages, curtseying to him with ample underleaves."
• "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."
• "“He could wait outside the lychgate,” I offered, but it was no use."