Lych Gate

From Fairfield Museum

1900 – 1920 (Date published)

colored glass slide

Lych gate at the Old Burying Ground, Beach Road. (A lych gate is a roofed-in gateway to a churchyard in which a bier or coffin might stand while the introductory part of the burial service was read.)

Accession/ID Number MOW_062_Funeral at Old Burying Ground

Subjects

• Cemeteries
• Funeral rites and ceremonies
• Lich-gates

Related People in LC Wright, Mabel Osgood, 1859-1934