Description: Wooden church pew, curved shape, natural wood color. This was from the Independence Methodist Church, the first church there.
The arm rests on either side extend down to the ground to form support legs. There is an additional support leg attached to the back in the center. The bottoms of all three legs have been attached to new 2"x6" boards. The backrest of the pew is one piece, oak. The seat is made of 1" slats glued together. Each armrest/leg is made of separate slats of wood 3/4" in diameter, bonded together. Three pieces make up the right armrest/leg (right side as you sit in the pew), and two pieces make up the left. The pieces used in the seat and back were assembled from smaller pieces of wood using tongue-in-grove. The tongue-in-grove joins are visible in the armrest.
The outside of the right armrest/leg (right side as you sit in the pew) features two designs. A rectangular indentation is situated in the center of the leg, 2" from the bottom. It is, 8 3/4" high, 6 7/8" wide. The two sides taper to the top to form a soft point, giving the design the rough shape of a tombstone. The second design is situated at the very top, outside of the armrest. It is a piece of molding apparently carved seperately and then attached to the pew. The design is a broken fleur de li with the three points of the cross separate but intertwining with each other. It is 7" long. A single groove runs the width of the back 1" below the top.
The left armrest/leg lacks ornamentation, but does have an L - shaped groove cut into the outside, apparently used to connect the pew with a mate. The backrest, or upper, part of the groove is 20 3/4" long. The seat part of the groove is 16 ½". The groove is 1/4" deep.
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