There are things like lychgates, stocks and pounds, and there are windmills, tithe barns, market squares and so on.
It might be put towards repairing the local church—they lychgate, or a wall, for example.
It has a fine example of a lychgate.
At the east end of the churchyard is a lychgate, built in 1698 and restored in the 19th century.
In 1863 the lychgate was built that leads into the church graveyard.
Pevsner also mentions a mediaeval lychgate, a font dated 1722 and the remains of a previous carved font incorporated into a doorway in the tower.
It is set within a raised circular enclosure, with an arched lychgate (possibly of 17th-century date).
A lychgate was built at the entrance to the churchyard in about 1930.