Antique Granite Bench

An antique granite bench with a long, backless slab resting on two squared block supports. The granite is coarse grained, gray shot through with tan, and the top has been worn to a soft level plane by decades of sitting and weather. Underneath and along the sides the stone is still rough, with the chips and fractures it picked up over a long first life; nothing has been dressed away.

It measures 81 inches wide, 22 inches deep and 22 inches high; the seat slab makes up about 10 inches of that height and the supports the rest. The seat is wide and level enough to sit on from either side, and the whole thing is heavy enough to stay where it is put. The chips are old and the edges are blunt; nothing needs doing to it.

The length suits a long outdoor table, where it gives open seating down one side, or the shade beneath an old tree, or the edge of a courtyard where it does not interrupt the view across the garden. It also pairs well with a wall of trailing ivy or an old stone fountain. This stone garden bench has sold, but we usually have similar granite benches in the yard or on the water; tell us what you are after and we will send what is current.