With a rich history going back to the 11th Century, Ledston Hall is a Grade I Listed manor close to Leeds that sits in 3,000 acres of beautiful gardens and parkland.
TGA Consulting Engineers were commissioned by the property’s owners The Wheler Foundation as part of a project team led by Purcell Architects, to repair and conserve the building’s historic fabric. This included redevelopment of part of the property into residential houses and apartments alongside retention of some of the principal rooms including the 12th Century chapel.
Ledston’s East entrance has an impressive stone staircase that is flanked on either side by iron lanterns. It is thought that the lanterns were originally manufactured in the early 1900s, as gasoliers and mounted on oak posts.
Over time they had deteriorated so that they no longer added to the imposing doorway in the way that they were intended. Following consultation between James Davison, TGA’s Specialist Lighting Designer, and Darren Renforth, operating on behalf of Dernier & Hamlyn, a specialist heritage lighting manufacturer, it was decided to replicate the lanterns.
The aim was to produce exact copies of the existing lanterns while improving the light levels by using modern and efficient LED technology.
Having talked through the requirements with Dernier & Hamlyn’s team of artisan makers and designers, drawings were produced in Dernier & Hamlyn’s studio and presented to TGA. The new 6m high lanterns were made in steel finished in a black RAL colour and fitted with curved glass.
Not only does this mean they will not rust, but they were also lighter to mount on the wooden posts.
To deliver these special lanterns from Dernier & Hamlyn’s Surrey factory to West Yorkshire required specialist handling to ensure they arrived in perfect condition so their team-built specialist wooden cradles.
Dernier & Hamlyn’s head of production Mark Pye said: “We are often asked to replicate heritage light fittings. Our extensive lighting archive provides invaluable reference material and to be able to reinterpret history to make it better than ever is very rewarding.”
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With a rich history going back to the 11th Century, Ledston Hall is a Grade I Listed manor close to Leeds that sits in 3,000 acres of beautiful gardens and parkland.
TGA Consulting Engineers were commissioned by the property’s owners The Wheler Foundation as part of a project team led by Purcell Architects, to repair and conserve the building’s historic fabric. This included redevelopment of part of the property into residential houses and apartments alongside retention of some of the principal rooms including the 12th Century chapel.
Ledston’s East entrance has an impressive stone staircase that is flanked on either side by iron lanterns. It is thought that the lanterns were originally manufactured in the early 1900s, as gasoliers and mounted on oak posts.
Over time they had deteriorated so that they no longer added to the imposing doorway in the way that they were intended. Following consultation between James Davison, TGA’s Specialist Lighting Designer, and Darren Renforth, operating on behalf of Dernier & Hamlyn, a specialist heritage lighting manufacturer, it was decided to replicate the lanterns.
The aim was to produce exact copies of the existing lanterns while improving the light levels by using modern and efficient LED technology.
Having talked through the requirements with Dernier & Hamlyn’s team of artisan makers and designers, drawings were produced in Dernier & Hamlyn’s studio and presented to TGA. The new 6m high lanterns were made in steel finished in a black RAL colour and fitted with curved glass.
Not only does this mean they will not rust, but they were also lighter to mount on the wooden posts.
To deliver these special lanterns from Dernier & Hamlyn’s Surrey factory to West Yorkshire required specialist handling to ensure they arrived in perfect condition so their team-built specialist wooden cradles.
Dernier & Hamlyn’s head of production Mark Pye said: “We are often asked to replicate heritage light fittings. Our extensive lighting archive provides invaluable reference material and to be able to reinterpret history to make it better than ever is very rewarding.”
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