Commemorative Benches

Here at Jati, we’ve been crafting teak garden, commemorative, memorial, and remembrance benches for nearly 30 years. Available in a choice of sizes and styles, our classic memorial benches are designed for comfort and quality – enhancing their surroundings for decades to come, and requiring minimal maintenance so they’re a pleasure to own.

A commemorative bench is a wonderful and enduring way to celebrate and honour a treasured loved one or special event. Whether you would like a hand-carved inscription or an engraved stainless steel or brass plaque, we will help you to create a personal and meaningful message to enrich your teak bench.

A personalised memorial bench would make an impressive and beautiful gift for weddings, anniversaries, birthdays and other celebrated milestones. It can also be a very touching way to memorialise the life of a dearly departed loved one.

If you are looking for an oak memorial bench, have you considered teak instead? Teak is extremely durable and can be left outside all year round with minimal maintenance, eventually weathering to a coveted silver-grey patina.

Below we have listed a number of options that are available to you in creating your very own personalised bench. If you require any assistance or advice, please do not hesitate to get in touch with our friendly sales team who will endeavour to help you create a truly personal remembrance bench.

Engraved Memorial Plaques

An engraved bench plaque is a lasting, tasteful way to commemorate a loved one or milestone, special place, event or occasion. Our bench plaques are available in several different sizes with a choice of fonts so they can be personalised to your specific requirements.

Brass is the traditional material for memorial plaques, and stainless steel offers a more modern appearance than brass. Our memorial plaques are available in several different sizes. Featuring countersunk screws for additional comfort should you be placing your plaque on a bench, and a stylish chamfered edge for aesthetic appeal, our custom-engraved plaques are of the highest quality and are a popular choice.

We offer our plaques in traditional brass or contemporary stainless steel to suit your needs. Characters are infilled and stove enamelled in black or white. Our standard sized plaques are 150mm x 50mm, although we can increase the length by 50mm increments on request to incorporate larger amounts of text or graphics.

Choose from these four fonts for your special engraved messages:

Modern – a sans serif font for clear and simple messages, ideal for names and dates.
Roman – a serif font to create a traditional feel suited to quotes and phrases.
Informal – a playful hand-written style to represent a joyful, light-hearted message.
Script – a calligraphy style font for a sophisticated and ornate message.

If you would like to discuss these options, or if you need any further information or help at all, please give our friendly team a call on 020 8655 6243 and they will be happy to provide any information or advice you require.

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Teak Memorial Bench Brass Plaques

Hand Carved Lettering

Let us carve a line of text to the seat rail or lower seat rail, ideal for longer and more detailed inscriptions. We can also carve an emblem, family crest or business logo into your bench. We are able to personalise your bench to whatever degree you require and beyond the options listed here on the website, so contact us to discuss your requirements.

Hand Carved Lettering
Faith Carving
Engraved Roman Lettering
Butterfly Carving

Choose from two beautiful fonts for perfect carved inscriptions:

Modern
A sans serif font for clear and simple messages, ideal for names and dates.
Roman
A serif font to create a traditional feel suited to quotes and phrases.

If you would like to discuss the available options in more detail, or need any help at all, please call our friendly team on 020 8655 6243.

Choose your Commemorative Bench

To create your very own personalised bench, our master craftsmen can hand-carve simple text, poems, quotes, and even more complex logos and graphics to your exact specification.

We understand that choosing memorial words for a plaque or carved inscription can be difficult. Our helpful staff are able to advise you on inscription ideas should you require a starting place. We are on hand to assist you right from your initial enquiry to delivery and beyond. Our team can help you choose your wording, and can advise on the best layouts and fonts to ensure your message is clear and you get the most from your remembrance bench.

Simply choose a teak garden bench, choose a plaque or carving and customise it using the real-time preview. We will deliver your unique memorial bench fully assembled to its final resting place, and you can purchase ground anchors to deter thieves if you feel this is something you require.

Personalised Bespoke Benches

If you would like to further personalise your commemorative bench we can also offer the following services:

Font colouring

Ideal for adding boldness to your message.

Different locations

Choose different locations for your engraving or plaque, such as the seat or armrest.

Style and finish

Choose from finely sanded, painted or distressed finishes.

Custom dimensions

Wider arms, wider slats, different seat heights and more.

For further information about how you can create the perfect commemorative bench, please call our helpful team on 020 8655 6243.

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Sample Wording for Memorial Plaques

It can be difficult to find the right words to say, which is why we have gathered together some examples of commemorative plaque wordings and memorial plaque quotes that our previous customers have asked us to create for them. Hopefully this can inspire your own memorial words.

Love you in the morning, love you in the evening
Love you tomorrow and forever
Mum and Dad
Forever in our hearts
A moment in our arms, a lifetime in our hearts
He lived for those he loved,
And those he loved remember
In Loving Memory of xxx
Always in Our Hearts & Forever Missed
If tears could build a stairway and memories could build a lane
We’d walk right up to heaven and bring you home again

Commemorative Gifts

Plaques and carvings are not just for bereavement; a commemorative bench is also a fitting tribute for other occasions and significant milestones, such as weddings, anniversaries, new homes, retirements, and so on.

Happy 60th,
with love from your boys
Eleanor & Timothy
Married
16th February 2019
Happy 90th Birthday
With Love from all the Family
Sit awhile and enjoy the view
Here and Hereafter, Humbly we Pray
Both and Together, Just as Today
Rob & Liz
Congratulations on Your Engagement
Sometimes I sits and thinks,
and sometimes I just sits
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Sun Tzu
To my darling wife, Maria on our 30 years together
Love always, Steve

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