What is a variation of the choirstall chair designed for multiple people?

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A key idea here is multi-person seating that still carries the seat-and-back concept of a traditional chair or stall. The settle is a long bench with a back (often with arms and sometimes a storage chest beneath), built to accommodate several people side by side. This makes it the natural multi-seat evolution of the choir stall chair, which originally provided individual seats for choristers. The settle’s form—one continuous seat for multiple occupants while retaining a recognizable back—fits the idea of extending a single-seat choir stall into a shared seating piece. A generic bench lacks the specific back-and-proportions connection to the stall tradition, a stool is typically for one person, and a chair is usually single-occupant.