Furniture and Decorative Arts of Sri Lanka

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Title

Church pew

Subject

Furniture

Description

Bench (formerly a church pew) with wooden seat, straight back with horizontal rail, down curved armrests, raised on square tapered legs.

Source

Lunuganga Trust, Lunuganga

Date

1800-1899

Relation

Full size, from side
Whole

Identifier

gbl.3

FDASL Item Type Metadata

Period

19th century

Place of Creation

SW Sri Lanka

Measurements (H: W: L:)

77.5 x 214.6 x 38.7 cm.(30 1/2 x 84 1/2 x 15 1/4 in.)

Materials

Jacwood

Techniques

Joined

Features

Wooden seat

Citation

"Church pew," online in Digital Library for International Research Archive, Item #601, http://www.dlir.org/archive/items/show/601 (accessed May 3, 2026).

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