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Lantern ceiling lights help to create a timeless appeal that will add an inviting touch to any room in your home. These beautiful pieces are created to complement your existing decoration or tie in with a complete refurbishment, emitting elegance and sophistication. Not only this, but these classy lantern lights offer their own heat source, perfect for corridors, bedrooms and living spaces.

At KES Lighting you will find a complete selection of lantern ceiling lights from some of the world’s finest manufacturers including Franklite and Elstead. With incredible prices and beautiful displays, KES Lighting has everything you would need.

Each of our lantern ceiling lights has been beautifully crafted and amongst our gorgeous offerings you’ll find polished brass models, six-light panelled lanterns and velvety satin finishes.

What’s certain is there’s a lantern light for every home. Simply browse the selection below and take advantage of our hugely competitive prices. You will also benefit from free delivery on all orders over £100, exclusively with KES Lighting.

Lanterns - Ceiling Lights - Indoor Lighting Recommendations & Buying Advice

A pendant built as a glazed box or cage on a chain or rod, taking its shape from a carriage or hall lantern but rated for inside. The glass panels give a soft, contained light rather than a wide wash, which is why they suit halls and stairwells. We hold 113 of them, mostly from Diyas, Lekki, Hinkley and Impex.

Halls, landings and stairwells, and over a square dining table. They are designed to be seen from below and from the side, so a stairwell where the fitting is viewed from two levels shows one off properly. In a living room they tend to look formal, and in a kitchen the glazing bars cast busy shadows.

Leave at least 2.1m of clear headroom in a hall or a landing, measured to the lowest point. In a stairwell, hang so the base sits roughly level with the first floor landing, which is what makes the fitting read from both storeys. Over a table you can go lower, to 70 or 90cm above the top.

Sealing, and it is not cosmetic. An indoor lantern is IP20, meaning no protection against water, and is often open at the bottom. An outdoor one is IP44 or IP65, with gasketed glazing and a drained body. They can look near identical, so check the rating rather than the shape before putting one in a porch.

Mostly the small E14 cap, which covers 48 of our 113 indoor lanterns, with E27 next at 14. Because the bulb sits behind clear glass and is visible from below, shape matters: a candle or a small globe LED in 2700K looks right, and an oversized bulb in a compact lantern looks wrong from the stairs.

They can, in the plainer shapes. A slim black or antique brass lantern with clean glazing bars and no scrollwork sits comfortably in a modern hall, particularly against panelling or a plain stair. What dates quickly is a heavily ornamented lantern with amber glass, which needs a period house around it to make sense.

Under a low ceiling, and as a room's only light. Lanterns need about 2.4m to hang properly, and below that they crowd the space and put glazing at eye level. The glass panels also contain the light rather than spreading it, so a lantern will mark a hall beautifully and leave a living room short.