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Church Pew
Located in London, England
Large pine pew / church bench with seat cushion upholstered in linen. England Circa 1890
Category

1890s Used Church Seats

Materials

Linen, Reclaimed Wood

Used Church Pew
Church Pew
H 37.41 in W 113.78 in D 24.41 in
Mid-Century Perriand Inspired Ladder Back Oak Church Chairs with Rush Seats
By Charlotte Perriand
Located in Los Angeles, CA
seats. These were used in a Dutch church. Lightly refinished, with some wear. These chairs may be
Category

1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Used Church Seats

Materials

Rush, Oak

Roland Rainer Two Seater Bent Beech Plywood Bench Once Used in Dutch Church
By Roland Rainer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Roland Rainer 2 seat bench with bent beech plywood seating and black wood legs from a Dutch Church
Category

Mid-20th Century Austrian Mid-Century Modern Used Church Seats

Materials

Beech, Plywood, Wood

Profils Horizontaux (20 men seated in a church, a hall, union or political?)
By Maurice Pasternak
Located in New Orleans, LA
Viewers are always curious about this image. I count 20 people seated -- all men. Why? Three of
Category

Late 20th Century Surrealist Used Church Seats

Materials

Mezzotint

Virgin and Child in Majesty, also known as "Sedes Sapientae"
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
middle of the 12th century, the Virgin took her place in churches, seated in Majesty, serving as a throne
Category

15th Century and Earlier Spanish Gothic Used Church Seats

Materials

Softwood

FIRST SUNDAY Signed Lithograph, Black Church Women, Hats Children Gullah Culture
By Jonathan Green
Located in Union City, NJ
. FIRST SUNDAY depicts a Lowcountry South Carolina black church scene featuring church ladies and children
Category

1990s Contemporary Used Church Seats

Materials

Lithograph

View of the Church - Original Pencil Drawing by Manfredo Borsi - 1940
By Manfredo Borsi
Located in Roma, IT
brilliant landscape of a church and a painter seated while painting in the front depicted from the back
Category

1940s Modern Used Church Seats

Materials

Pencil

Church Interior with Praying Woman Signed by Belgian Emile Vloors 1894 Bruges
Located in Milano, MI
canvas depicting the interior of a church with an elderly woman seated as she is praying near a hanging
Category

Late 19th Century Belgian Used Church Seats

Materials

Canvas, Oak

Arts and Crafts Carved Oak Window Seat, Hall Bench
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
stretcher This is a very sturdy piece in good condition, the seat may have been a church organ seat
Category

Late 20th Century Arts and Crafts Used Church Seats

Materials

Oak

Arts and Crafts Carved Oak Organist Stool, Window Seat, Hall Bench
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
, the seat may have been a church organ seat originally but would work very well as a window seat or a
Category

1880s Arts and Crafts Used Church Seats

Materials

Pine

Large Antique French Bench Settee Gothic Oak Tracery Lift Top Seat c. 19th
Located in Tyler, TX
BEAUTIFUL Antique French Oak GOTHIC REVIVAL Bench, Settee or Church Pew with Lift-Top Seat for
Category

Late 19th Century French Gothic Revival Used Church Seats

Materials

Oak

Antique French Bench Settee Gothic Oak Linen Fold Figural Lift Top Seat c. 1900
Located in Tyler, TX
BEAUTIFUL Antique French Oak GOTHIC REVIVAL Bench, Settee or Church Pew with Lift-Top Seat for
Category

Early 1900s French Gothic Revival Used Church Seats

Materials

Oak

19th Century French Pair of Cathedral Chairs - Antique Walnut Side Chairs
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
a private church in Rouen, France. Seat: 19" H x 14" W x 15.25" D.
Category

Early 19th Century French Charles X Used Church Seats

Materials

Walnut

"Sermon Time", 19th Century by Annie Sherrif (1850-1888) Irish
Located in Blackwater, GB
lady seated before attending church, oil on canvas by Annie Sheriff. Excellent quality and condition
Category

19th Century Used Church Seats

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Early Gothic Medieval Cathedral Solid Oak Misericord Bench Chair
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
the rows of the churches. Hinged when the seat is raised and sturdy in open seating position. This
Category

17th Century European Gothic Used Church Seats

Materials

Wood

Fine Museum Quality Large Antique 18th Century Greek Orthodox Icon, Pentecost
Located in New York, NY
fire, enabling them to preach in different languages. The seat in the center of the gathering, between
Category

18th Century Greek Used Church Seats

Materials

Wood

The Sacristan
By Harry Morley
Located in New Orleans, LA
This image shows a cleric seated in a church sacristy surrounded by religious statues, croziers
Category

Early 20th Century Modern Used Church Seats

Materials

Engraving

Exceptional Virgin and Child in Majesty or "Sedes Sapientiae", Throne of Wisdom
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
within churches where she seats in majesty. Taking place on a throne-bench she is then figured strictly
Category

15th Century and Earlier Used Church Seats

Materials

Walnut

Map Road Strip Britannia Sheet 2 John Ogilby London Aberistwith Islip Bramyard
By John Ogilby
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
with small illustrations to mark the sites of churches, windmills and country seats. More useful
Category

17th Century English Baroque Used Church Seats

Materials

Paper

Seated Woman in Black in Church
By Gwen John
Located in New York, NY
The setting is the Meudon church, subject of many of Gwen John's watercolors of the 1910s and 1920s.
Category

Used Church Seats

Materials

Gouache, Paper

St.Pauls Cathedral Church Pew 6-Seat
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Oak six-seat church pew, by repute from St.Pauls Cathedral, late 19th-early 20th century. With
Category

Late 19th Century British Used Church Seats

Materials

Oak

St.Pauls Cathedral Church Pew 6-Seat
St.Pauls Cathedral Church Pew 6-Seat
H 40.56 in W 99.22 in D 20.08 in
Little Girl with Hat, Seated in Church
By Gwen John
Located in New York, NY
Gouache and pencil on paper
Category

Used Church Seats

19th Century Engraving of "Cathedrale de Reims"
Located in Brooklyn, NY
church is the seat of the Archdiocese of Reims and is the building in which the French Kings were crowned
Category

1880s French Beaux Arts Used Church Seats

Materials

Paper

View of the Remains of the Temple of Minerva at Syracuse
By William Wilkins 1
Located in New York, NY
(Minerva). The Cathedral is an ancient Catholic church and the seat of the Catholic Archdiocese of
Category

Early 1800s Realist Used Church Seats

Materials

Lithograph

Unique Set of Solid Mahogany Church Seats by Dutch Architect Harry Nefkens, 1963
By Harry Nefkens
Located in bergen op zoom, NL
This unique one of a kind set of solid mahogany seats comes from a Church by Dutch Architect Harry
Category

1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Used Church Seats

Materials

Mahogany

Roland Rainer 3 Seater Bench from a Dutch Church
By Roland Rainer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Roland Rainer 3 seat bench with bent beech plywood seating and black wood legs from a Dutch Church
Category

1960s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Used Church Seats

Materials

Beech

Roland Rainer 4 Seater Bench from a Dutch Church
By Roland Rainer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Roland Rainer 4 seat bench with bent beech plywood seating and black wood legs from a Dutch Church
Category

1960s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Used Church Seats

Materials

Wood, Beech

1960's British Beech Church with Sapele Seat, Chapel Dining Chair, Set of Eight
Located in Hook, Hampshire
1960’s British beech church with sapele seat – chapel dining chair – set of eight 1960’s British
Category

1960s British Used Church Seats

Materials

Beech

Antique Gothic Revival Pugin Carved Oak Church 3 Seat Pew Bench Choir Stall 1850
By Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin
Located in Portland, OR
A good & substantial, antique carved oak three seat Gothic Revival, Pugin influenced church pew
Category

1850s English Gothic Revival Used Church Seats

Materials

Oak

Heavy sculptural brass cubist church chair
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Heavy sculptural brass cubist church chair. 19th in. tall seat.
Category

1950s American Used Church Seats

German Church Pews, Set of 15
Located in Dusseldorf, DE
Large set of 15 (4-seat) church pews from the "Herz Jesu Kirche" in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Category

1920s German Used Church Seats

Materials

Wood, Oak

German Church Pews, Set of 15
German Church Pews, Set of 15
H 40.95 in W 79.53 in D 21.66 in
German Church Pews, Benches, Set of 4
Located in Dusseldorf, DE
Set of 4 (4-seat) church pews from the "Herz Jesu Kirche" in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Category

1920s German Used Church Seats

Materials

Wood, Oak

German Church Pews, Benches, Set of 4
German Church Pews, Benches, Set of 4
H 40.95 in W 79.53 in D 21.66 in
Gothic Dry Point Etching "Church of Holy Septure Jerusalem" Print, Brewer
By James Brewer
Located in Big Flats, NY
Gothic Henry C Brewer (British 1866-1943) aquatint and dry point etching "Church of Holy Sepulcher
Category

20th Century English Gothic Used Church Seats

Materials

Giltwood, Paper

French Choir Pew
Located in Round Top, TX
A fantastic French two-seat pine choir pew from the apse of a church, with flip-up seats and a tall
Category

Mid-19th Century French Used Church Seats

Materials

Pine

French Choir Pew
French Choir Pew
H 73 in W 73.5 in D 25 in
Pair of Italian Walnut Choir Chairs
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of barrel back choir chairs from an Italian church. Made of walnut, each seat has a door below
Category

19th Century Italian Used Church Seats

Antique English Memorial Rubbing 19th C
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique English memorial rubbing from St. Mary's Church, England seated in giltwood frame
Category

19th Century English Used Church Seats

Materials

Giltwood, Paper

Antique English Memorial Rubbing 19th C
Antique English Memorial Rubbing 19th C
H 26.75 in W 23 in D 1.75 in
Italian Shaped Walnut Mid 19th Century Hall Bench
Located in Atlanta, GA
This mid 19th Century small hall bench or church pew with a rectangular seat raised on lyre-shaped
Category

Mid-19th Century Italian Baroque Revival Used Church Seats

Materials

Walnut

Antique Print of the Basilica of St. Peter's at the Vatican Rome
Located in Langweer, NL
, but of the world. Its role within the Roman Catholic Church as the seat of the papacy, coupled with
Category

Late 18th Century Used Church Seats

Materials

Paper

1960s Pair of Czech Republic Lounge Chairs Armchairs by Jaroslav Smidek for Ton
By TON a.s., Jaroslav Smidek
Located in London, GB
, refinished in a matte polish and reupholstered in a Linwood fabric. The chairs have a deep seat and are
Category

Mid-20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Used Church Seats

Materials

Fabric, Beech

Antique Country Pine Pew Bench, circa 1900
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
A most pleasing church pew bench seat presented in very good antique condition Of classic form
Category

Early 1900s Great Britain (UK) Victorian Used Church Seats

Materials

Pine

Antique Country Pine Pew Bench, circa 1900
Antique Country Pine Pew Bench, circa 1900
H 34.65 in W 50.79 in D 11.82 in
Set of 6 1960s Danish Teak Dining Chairs by Henning Sorensen for Danex
By Danex, Henning Sorensen
Located in London, GB
. In very good vintage condition. On display at the Church Street location. Seat height: 45cms
Category

Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Used Church Seats

Materials

Fabric, Teak

Ole Wanscher Rosewood and Goatskin "Egyptian" Stools for AJ Iversen, 1957
By Ole Wanscher
Located in Coronado, CA
, for example, by the Roman Catholic Church as a bishop’s seat on special occasions. Ole Wanscher has
Category

1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Used Church Seats

Materials

Goatskin, Rosewood

Antique Carved French Church Pew, circa 1750
Located in Dallas, TX
This is a beautifully hand-carved antique French church seat from the 1700s. The first use would
Category

Mid-18th Century French Used Church Seats

Materials

Oak

Antique Carved French Church Pew, circa 1750
Antique Carved French Church Pew, circa 1750
H 37.88 in W 30.13 in D 16.13 in
Unique and Quality Carved Gothic Revival Oak Church Stool Seat, 19th Century
Located in Lisse, NL
Antique, stunning and practical Gothic stool with a seat pillow with tassels. This striking and
Category

Late 19th Century Dutch Gothic Revival Used Church Seats

Materials

Velvet, Oak, Fabric

1960's British Beech Church With Sapele Seat, Chapel Dining Chair, Set Sixteen
Located in Hook, Hampshire
1960’s British Beech church with sapele seat – chapel dining chair – set of sixteen 1960’s
Category

1960s British Used Church Seats

Materials

Beech

Unique and Quality Carved Gothic Revival Oak Church Stool Seat w. Velvet Seating
Located in Lisse, NL
church window motifs. This fine antique also has a beautiful patina and it radiates nothing but quality
Category

Early 20th Century Dutch Gothic Revival Used Church Seats

Materials

Brass

Antique French Church Pew
Located in Houston, TX
Found in southern France, this oak church pew was once used for worship in a French country church
Category

Late 19th Century French Used Church Seats

Materials

Iron

Antique French Church Pew
Antique French Church Pew
H 10.5 in W 77 in D 10.5 in
Kaare Klint Pair of "Church Chairs" for Fritz Hansen, Denmark, 1960s
By Kaare Klint, Fritz Hansen
Located in Utrecht, NL
seats. The “Church Chair” by “the instigator of functionalism”, Kaare Klint, is a beautiful example
Category

1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Used Church Seats

Materials

Papercord, Wood

12 Rare Mid-Century Design Stacking "Church" Chairs Wood Eames Style, '60
Located in Boven Leeuwen, NL
Extremely rare, 12 industrial vintage mid-century Dutch Design stacking chairs from a church
Category

1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Used Church Seats

Materials

Wood, Bentwood, Plywood

Antique Map of Ethiopia 'Africa' by H. Ludolf, 1683
Located in Langweer, NL
provinces, marked are also cities, monasteries, seats of the church, mountains etc. Ethiopia is an important
Category

Late 17th Century Used Church Seats

Materials

Paper

FIRST SUNDAY Signed Lithograph, African American Heritage, Gullah Culture
By Jonathan Green
Located in Union City, NJ
is a simple composition of an interior scene featuring women and children seated in church wearing
Category

1990s Contemporary Used Church Seats

Materials

Lithograph

French Church Prie Dieu
Located in San Francisco, CA
for holding prayer books while kneeling in church. Seat is lower than typical to make it easier for
Category

19th Century French Used Church Seats

Materials

Walnut

French Church Prie Dieu
French Church Prie Dieu
H 38 in W 15 in D 13 in
Unusual Box Seat Church Pew
Located in New Orleans, LA
The pew is in the Gothic style. It has an interesting paint assortment of red, yellow and muddy brown. Attractively worn.
Category

19th Century French Used Church Seats

Materials

Wood

Unusual Box Seat Church Pew
Unusual Box Seat Church Pew
H 47 in W 44 in D 37.5 in
Gothic Oak Church or Hall Seat
Located in Heathfield, East Sussex
A lovely solid oak hall seat in the Gothic taste. Tongue and groove seat back flanked with nicely
Category

1910s English Gothic Revival Used Church Seats

Materials

Oak

Gothic Oak Church or Hall Seat
Gothic Oak Church or Hall Seat
H 51 in W 33 in L 51 in
St.Pauls Cathedral Church Pew 4 Seats
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Oak four-seat church pew, by repute from St.Pauls Cathedral, late 19th-early 20th century, with
Category

Late 19th Century British Used Church Seats

Materials

Oak

St.Pauls Cathedral Church Pew 4 Seats
St.Pauls Cathedral Church Pew 4 Seats
H 40.56 in W 99.22 in D 20.08 in
Church Pew
Located in Bridgehampton, NY
Oak church pew with original seat numbers. Two seater available $2600
Category

Early 20th Century English Used Church Seats

Materials

Oak

Church Pew
Church Pew
H 39.25 in W 68.5 in D 16.25 in
Oak Church Pew
Located in Bridgehampton, NY
3 seat Church pew with original seat numbers
Category

Early 20th Century English Used Church Seats

Materials

Oak

Oak Church Pew
Oak Church Pew
H 39.25 in W 68.5 in D 16.25 in
Early Church Pew
Located in New Jersey City, NJ
Rare 2 seats church pew
Category

19th Century French Used Church Seats

Early Church Pew
Early Church Pew
H 40.5 in W 74.5 in D 17 in
Pair of Church Pews
Located in Houston, TX
This is one of a pair of pine paneled church pews. 18" Seat height
Category

French Used Church Seats

Pair of Church Pews
Pair of Church Pews
H 35.5 in W 78.5 in
18th Century Pew
Located in Llandudno, Conwy
A 18th century oak church pew. The seat and back rest are single thick oak planks as are the
Category

Mid-18th Century British Georgian Used Church Seats

Materials

Oak

18th Century Pew
18th Century Pew
H 49.22 in W 79.93 in D 11.82 in
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Used Church Seats For Sale on 1stDibs

There is a range of used church seats for sale on 1stDibs. The range of distinct used church seats — often made from wood, beech and hardwood — can elevate any home. There are all kinds of used church seats available, from those produced as long ago as the 19th Century to those made as recently as the 20th Century. Mid-Century Modern used church seats are consistently popular styles. There have been many well-made used church seats over the years, but those made by Roland Rainer and Harry Nefkens are often thought to be among the most beautiful.

How Much are Used Church Seats?

Used church seats can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price at 1stDibs is $1,850, while the lowest priced sells for $764 and the highest can go for as much as $10,000.
Questions About Used Church Seats
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