Antique Limestone Pillars (Pair)

A pair of antique stone pillars in pale, porous limestone: rectangular shafts with chamfered caps, rounded at the very top, standing on widened, stepped bases. They have been outside a long time. Bright green moss and dark lichen cling to the bases, a horizontal fracture runs straight across the upper section of one post, and just below the top of each face a small triangular indentation has been cut into the stone. The fracture is part of what you are buying, and we would say so to anyone who asked.

Each pillar measures 35 inches wide, 35 inches deep and 29 inches high, so as listed they are broad and heavy rather than slender. The flat caps are stable platforms for a lantern or an urn. They come as a pair only, and each one needs a machine to set.

Set them either side of a drive or a courtyard gate, at the two ends of a low retaining wall, or sunk a few inches into a gravel border so the moss meets the ground. Against a plastered estate wall or a run of boxwood the raw stone reads clearly. These limestone columns have sold. We usually have other stone pillars and gate piers in the yard or on the water; ask and we will send what is current.