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We were honoured to be asked to write an article for the July/August issue of Listed Heritage Magazine. Listed Heritage is a guide to listed property ownership and contains examples of conversions and restoration projects, members letters, advice and information. Our article advises owners on the maintenance of their chandeliers for both aesthetic and safety reasons and explains how they can be so easily damaged, especially antique pieces that have been modernised. We also explain that when pieces are beyond repair we are able to make reproductions, using the beautiful chandelier we created for the Gdansk museum in Poland as an example. We are members of the Listed Property Owners

Welcome to our new website. The enhanced Portfolio section allows you to view a selection of fittings throughout the eras providing you with the details required to help you select your preferential design. In our new Stock section you can see a variety of items available for purchase and our redesigned Components menu contains many of the items you will require for self installation with additional items available from our eBay link. We have included lots of new material in our History and About Us pages with all you need to know about our family business. Our Services menu will guide you through the jobs that we can undertake and

Working for the world renowned Paris based interior designer Alberto Pinto, Wilkinson recently completed a magnificent suite of three large Adam style chandeliers in blue lead crystal for one of their clients. Each chandelier, weighing in at 180 kg, has 24 lights arranged on 2 tiers with an additional 6 upper arms fitted with decorative triangular spikes. At over 2.8 metres tall and 1.8 metres diameter, they are the largest Adam style chandeliers ever made by the company and were accompanied by a set of 12 matching wall lights of equally impressive proportions. The work took a total of 18 months to complete.

A challenging task was presented in 2012 with the request to manufacture a pair of chandeliers and matching wall lights with only a photograph to go on. The picture was of an early 1900 F & C Osler chandelier Wilkinson restored in the 1990s which featured both intricate metalwork as well as hand cut lead crystal in numerous shapes. The reproductions were created by altering the original design to meet the customers specifications, however with no existing physical patterns to take castings from Mr. Wilkinson had to hand draw each individual piece for new moulds to be created, ensuring that they were kept to scale and maintained the original pattern.

Wilkinson supplied one of their Thornham Hall-style Georgian chandeliers to the highly acclaimed Interior design company Maine Design of Los Angeles in California for an article in House Beautiful magazine. The chandelier is a reproduction of one of the earliest surviving examples of an English Georgian lead crystal chandelier made for Thornham Hall in Suffolk in 1732. This particular version included 10 lights with plain scrolled arms with pans and hand cut lead crystal baluster stem pieces. The chandelier appeared in a 12 page spread in the American House Beautiful magazine in the December 2011 & January 2012 issue. The article featured a Newport Beach dining room, in which the

In August 2011 Wilkinson completed the manufacture of one of the largest chandeliers we’ve produced in recent years – a 48 light Osler reproduction. The chandelier consists of over 3,500 of crystal components with hand cut English Lead crystal pieces and Swarovski crystal pendants, it measures 3 metres in height, 2 metres in diameter, with 48 lights and weighing over 300kg (on right). It was based on an Osler electrolier (design No. 3004) manufactured around 1900 that was slightly smaller containing only 36 lights. Wilkinson restored this original Osler chandelier a number of years ago and can be seen pictured on the left.

In September 2010, Wilkinson was tasked with restoring an original 19th century chandelier that hung in the State Dining Room at Apsley House, London. Home to the Duke of Wellington after his victory over Napoleon at Waterloo up to 1947 when the house was given to the nation by the 7th Duke of Wellington in 1947. It is now managed by English Heritage and is the last surviving great London town house open to the public while the original owners family still live there. According to the Victoria and Albert Museum archives the chandelier is believed to have been designed and produced by Hancock, Rixon and Dunt of Cockspur Street

Wilkinson installed a magnificent 17th century Dutch brass chandelier in the refurbished St. George’s Church in Bloomsbury, London. The chandelier is a rare example of a Dutch chandelier so was carefully wired, cleaned and restored to conserve its original features which include scrolling branches holding 36 lights. Weighing over 700kg it measures 2.8 metres in height and is over 2 metres wide at its core. The chandelier originally hung in a church in Kaatsheuval, North Brabant, Netherlands before gracing the Grand Entrance to the Victoria and Albert museum for a majority of the 20th Century. In a unique arrangement organised by the World Monuments Fund Britain, the chandelier is now