monomonday wood

Todays blip is for the monomonday wood c/o http://www.blipfoto.com/TywynSue
This lych gate, is at Lower Whitley Church - Lychgates consist of a roofed porch-like structure over a gate, normally built of wood, they usually consist of four or six upright wooden posts in a rectangular shape. On top of this are a number of beams to hold a pitched roof covered in thatch or wooden or clay tiles. They can have decorative carvings and in later times were erected as memorials.

The gateway was really part of the church. It was where the clergy met the corpse and the bier rested while part of the service was read before burial. It also served to shelter the pall-bearers while the bier was brought from the church. In some lych gates there stood large flat stones called lich-stones upon which the corpse, usually uncoffined, was laid. The most common form of lych gate is a simple shed composed of a roof with two gabled ends, covered with tiles or thatch.

I think these are great especially when you out cycling and the heavens open up a great way to hide out of the rain just like today - when is the sun coming out again