Lych-gates are by no means unfamiliar structures in New Zealand, for many of them have been erected at the entrances to churchyards in many parts of the Dominion. Their origin in medieval England, which is less well known, was briefly explained by Archbishop Averill at a ceremony in St Stephen's Cemetery, Parnell. A lych-gate, he said, was intended as a shelter under which those who bore a body to burial might sit down and rest. He did not know whether this was a reflection on the unpunctuality of the clergy in those times, but the fact remained.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 April 1940, Page 9
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