- also known as a kirkyard-style, this is a term for a gateway to a kirkyard (or churchyard) that has been recorded in use in Scots texts since the fifteenth century. More specifically, it is typically a narrow entrance enclosed by bars, a wicket or an arrangement of steps, where meetings were arranged and announcements made, and where the bier was received into the church-yard at funerals. Kirkstyle is sometimes used as the name of a house or farm near the kirkyard.
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