Editing Lychgate (section)

{{Short description|Gateway covered with a roof in an English-style churchyard}}
[[Image:LychGateStrataFlorida.jpg|upright|thumb|A lych gate in [[Ceredigion]], [[Wales]], decorated for a wedding]]

A '''lychgate''' (from [[Old English language|Old English]] ''līc'', corpse) or '''resurrection gate'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dictionary.com/browse/lich-gate?s=t|title=the definition of lich gate|website=Dictionary.com|access-date=6 April 2018}}</ref> is a covered gateway found at the entrance to a traditional English or English-style [[churchyard]]. Examples also exist outside the [[British Isles]] in places such as [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]],<ref>{{Cite web|last=Jarvis|first=Dale|title=More (yes more) on Newfoundland Lych Gates for #MortuaryMonday|url=http://www.ichblog.ca/2019/04/more-yes-more-on-newfoundland-lych.html|access-date=2020-06-28|language=en}}</ref> the [[Upland South]]<ref>{{Citation|last1=Jeane|first1=D. Gregory|title=The Upland South Folk Cemetery Complex:: Some Suggestions of Origin|date=1989|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46nqxw.11|work=Cemeteries Gravemarkers|pages=107–136|editor-last=Meyer|editor-first=Richard E.|publisher=University Press of Colorado|isbn=978-0-87421-160-3|access-date=2020-06-28|last2=Deetz|first2=James|jstor=j.ctt46nqxw.11}}</ref> and Texas<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last=Jordan|first=Terry G.|date=1980|title="The Roses so Red and the Lilies so Fair": Southern Folk Cemeteries in Texas|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/30241035|journal=The Southwestern Historical Quarterly|volume=83|issue=3|pages=227–258|jstor=30241035|pmid=11633245|issn=0038-478X}}</ref> in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Norway,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Pritchett|first=R. T.|date=1878|title=Norway. Chapter XVII|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/20569228|journal=The Art Journal |volume=4|pages=168–171|doi=10.2307/20569228|jstor=20569228|issn=2152-243X|url-access=subscription}}</ref> and Sweden.