French Antique Granite Stone Mill used as Bench

A long French antique granite bench cut from an antique millstone, curved, in a mix of pale gray and warm tan stone. The inner seating channel keeps closely spaced radial grooves, the pattern that once ground grain, and they give the seat a ribbed texture under the hand. The thick backrest and the outer edges are broken and heavily pitted, left as they came.

It measures 89 1/2 inches across the arc, 24 inches deep and 31 1/2 inches high on its two low stone supports; the listing records seat depths of 14 3/4 and 12 1/2 inches and heights of 18 and 13 1/2 inches for the mill section and the supports. The supports let the heavy block be leveled on gravel or bare ground without a slab.

The curve frames a gathering place: around a round outdoor table, in front of a stone hearth, or along the edge of a patio where the arc sets the shape of the whole layout and seats several people in a row. This stone garden bench has sold. Antique millstone benches of this length are not common, but we do find them; ask and we will send what is current in the yard or on the water.