St. John the Evangelist

Coulsdon Parish Church - Old Coulsdon, Surrey

You are outside the gate looking in. Turn left for the green north of the churchyard or move forwards to enter.

The entrance to the church grounds is a lych gate, so called because there is provision for a coffin to be lych or let down during the wait in a funeral. In 1912 it was described as "modern". Note the mounting blocks on the left, a relic of the days when many people came to church on horseback.