TQ3751 : Lych gate, Church of St Peter
taken 3 years ago, near to Tandridge, Surrey, England
A lychgate or as two separate words 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. It was also a shelter for the pall bearers.
St. Peter's Church, occupies an elevated and prominent position in the parish. The nave is late 11th century, with a wall and carved priest's door in the north of the chancel of the same date. The tower and spire form a rare example of timber construction, and one of the earliest of its class in Surrey, dating, in fact, from the end of the 13th or the beginning of the 14th century. Grade I listed.