A View From A Lych Gate

If you are wondering why this picture is a bit spooky, read on please.......

A lychgate, is a gateway covered with a roof found at the entrance to a traditional English churchyard. The word lych survived into modern English from the Old English or Saxon word for corpse

In the Middle Ages when most people were buried in just shrouds rather than coffins, the dead were carried to the lych gate and placed on a bier, where the priest conducted the first part of the funeral service under its temporary shelter