Discover opulent crystal chandeliers and stunning brass or silver lanterns, all within our Georgian lighting collection. Chosen for their high quality and beauty, our selection of Georgian lights is sure to have something you like.
Georgian lighting is the age of elegance: the candlelit century of chandeliers, lanterns and sconces, when the hall lantern and the crystal chandelier took the forms they still hold. A Georgian piece, or one faithfully made in the style, brings that proportion and grace into a room instantly.
Our Georgian collection is restored and made in our Herefordshire workshop, where we have worked on period lighting since 1982, from genuine restored pieces like our antique silver plated chandelier with moonstone shades to made-to-order lanterns and chandeliers in the Georgian manner. Every original is stripped, restored, rewired in line with current standards and safety-tested before sale.
Georgian houses have strict ideas about scale: generous halls, tall ceilings, symmetry everywhere. They forgive, even demand, larger fittings than modern rooms. Tell us about your rooms and we will be honest about what suits them, what we have, what we can make, and what each option costs.
Georgian lighting is the style of the 1714 to 1830 era: hall lanterns, crystal chandeliers, sconces and candelabra from the candlelit age of elegance, and faithful pieces made in the same manner. Fritz Fryer restores genuine period pieces and makes Georgian-style lighting to order in our Herefordshire workshop.
Georgian houses suit the era’s own grammar: a lantern in the hall, a chandelier in the dining and drawing rooms, sconces flanking fireplaces and mirrors, and everything in proportion, the Georgians were strict about scale. Original or faithfully made pieces sit far better than generic modern fittings. We can advise room by room.
Some are genuine restored originals, and we always say clearly which is which. The rest are made to order in our workshop to Georgian designs, in the same materials and by the same hands that restore the originals. Every piece, original or new, is rewired and safety-tested in line with current standards before sale.
Ours are. Every original we sell is dismantled, restored, rewired in line with current standards and safety-tested in our Herefordshire workshop before sale, with sympathetic repairs made by hand. Untested period lights from general dealers should always be professionally rewired before use.
Georgian rooms forgive scale: as a guide, add the room’s length and width in feet and that number in inches gives a good chandelier diameter, then err up in high-ceilinged rooms. Over a dining table, aim for half to two-thirds of the table’s width. Tell us your dimensions and we will recommend.
Yes. All our Georgian fittings, restored originals included, are rewired for modern bulbs and take LEDs. Dimmable warm-white LEDs return the candlelit glow these pieces were designed around, at a fraction of the running cost, and run kinder and cooler on old glass and metal.
Genuine restored originals are priced individually by period, rarity and condition; made-to-order Georgian-style pieces are priced comparably with premium retail brands, rising with size. Either way you are buying real materials, four decades of restoration experience, and a piece made or remade to last.
Often, yes. We have sourced and restored period lighting for over forty years and regularly put together whole-house schemes: a restored original where the right one exists, made-to-order pieces in matching finishes where it does not. Tell us the rooms and we will propose an honest scheme.
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