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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21976, 28 December 1936, Page 11

The name "lych-pate" was in in Saxon time.-;, more than 1300 years apo f writes Christopher Wcnleck. in ‘'Sunday at Home'T "Lich” siemties "corpse,” the Anglo-Saxon “lie" mesrin;.; a dead body. So the lych-gate ;< the pate through which the corpse ■' borne on its way to the Tomb: an ', the pathway aloiu* which the passes from the pale is called tim lych-palh or lych-way. In Gloucester there was, until recently a lych-stone. in Lych lane, where the body *f Edward 11. rested when being conveyed to the cathedral for sepulture—showing that coffin-stones or iych-stones were not confined exclusively to the churchyard. The name Lichfield, it will bo seen, means “the field of the dead,” and it is supposed that Lichfield Cathedral stands on the spot where Christian martyrs were buried in tile year 290.