Bus stops / shelter's and your bike

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biggs682

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Itching to get back on my bike's
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Northamptonshire
A Northampton racecourse old tram stop

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biggs682

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Itching to get back on my bike's
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Northamptonshire
Not sure of the proper name for the covered entrances to church and graveyard grounds but this one is in Great Straughton

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Bonefish Blues

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52 Festive Road
The proper name for a covered entrance to church or graveyard grounds is a lychgate, also spelled lichgate or corpse gate. These structures provided shelter for the funeral party and the corpse as they awaited the priest to begin the burial service, acting as a liminal space between the secular and consecrated grounds of the churchyard.
 

FrothNinja

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The proper name for a covered entrance to church or graveyard grounds is a lychgate, also spelled lichgate or corpse gate. These structures provided shelter for the funeral party and the corpse as they awaited the priest to begin the burial service, acting as a liminal space between the secular and consecrated grounds of the churchyard.

Properly speaking, the name applies only to those that were equipped with a coffin rest when constructed.
The vast majority are Victorian or later & are constructed in imitation of the form rather than the purpose. Good places for a rainy day picnic if equipped with benches.
 

Bonefish Blues

Banging donk
Location
52 Festive Road
Covered gates but no one would quibble with them being called lych gates anymore than they would with Georgian & Victorian mansions being called such & such Castle

Do you have a reference for a 'true' lynchgate necessarily having a permanent coffin rest? After your post I've been looking more deeply and cannot see this as a requirement/definition, so interested to research further.
 
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biggs682

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Itching to get back on my bike's
Location
Northamptonshire
Do you have a reference for a 'true' lynchgate necessarily having a permanent coffin rest? After your post I've been looking more deeply and cannot see this as a requirement/definition, so interested to research further.

The church in ravenstone is the nicest one I have found locally and it has a bench seat both sides so I suppose you could rest a coffin on them?
 

Bonefish Blues

Banging donk
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52 Festive Road
The church in ravenstone is the nicest one I have found locally and it has a bench seat both sides so I suppose you could rest a coffin on them?

Undertakers have always travelled with trestles for coffins, to use graveside and sometimes in church if the church didn't have a coffin stand (a 'catafalque'), so that'd be an unlikely and rather frowned-upon use of seats I think 🤭
 

FrothNinja

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The seats either side are indeed the rest - in days of yore the coffin was placed there awaiting being officially / ritually accepted for burial by the presiding priest. This isn't really part of most burial services these days, though many municipal burial grounds still have similar facility just in case.
 
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