The chapel will be located on the left side of the courtyard as you draw near to the main house itself. It is enclosed by a hedged and walled rose garden. As one walks from the courtyard into the chapel precincts, one will pass through a lych gate, which will be the only passage through the hedge on that side of the garden.
The word lych, come from the old English, Lic, meaning corpse. It was where the body would rest before being taken inside a church during a funeral procession. As morbid as the history sounds, they are actually very charming architectural features...
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You could email me at the address below once you are in NZ and we could arrange to meet that way? Dx
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