It has been said that a cemetery is probably the most peaceful spot in any city, and granite cemetery benches help to make that true. Most cemeteries feature a scattering of granite cemetery benches installed in locations that, as the website of the Veterans National Cemetery in Northern Virginia says, take advantage of views or vistas or establish spots for meditation.
Initially, granite cemetery benches were mostly often found in the common areas of a cemetery, the areas between private plots. They were often donated to the cemetery by civic organizations or others with an interest in helping maintain a beautiful landscape at the cemetery. Sometimes they were adorned with engravings paying tribute to a particular person, but, most often, they were un-engraved. They were simply beautiful pieces of sculpted granite designed to enhance the landscape beauty of a cemetery.
Today, however, granite cemetery benches are more and more commonly part of family memorials, whether at a cemetery or elsewhere. Today, families will often buy a series of cemetery plots and then work with cemetery planners to use granite cemetery benches to connect all the plots visually in an elegant landscape design. Families can, and often do, install granite cemetery benches in locations other than cemeteries. Granite benches can make gorgeous center pieces for memorial displays at residences, or, sometimes even in public parks or on the grounds of large institutions such as colleges or corporations. No matter the location, granite cemetery benches certainly can make for beautiful memorials.
As with so much else in the memorial products industry today, the sky is the limit when it comes to the design and function of granite cemetery benches. The benches are available in a huge variety of colors of granite, and the variety of ready-made designs available today is astounding. Granite cemetery benches can all be personalized with luxurious custom engraving, and many can even be custom designed.
Many of today’s cemetery benches look as though they are traditional upright grave markers, but most are not used that way. Instead families often use them as centerpieces that tie together an entire group of graves, each of which are marked with their own (usually flat) headstone.
Whatever your choice, and purpose, of your cemetery bench, it is important that, before you buy, you check with your cemetery or other relevant landowner to make certain your plans are acceptable. Some cemeteries have strict rules regarding granite cemetery benches and, simply that a certain style or type of bench is available does not guarantee that it will be acceptable for your cemetery planner.
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