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Our collection of traditional wall lighting embodies timeless elegance, offering a wealth of vintage, classical, and refined styles to enhance any space. These enduring designs provide a blend of nostalgia and class, suiting a wide array of tastes. Despite their traditional aesthetic, our wall lights maintain their relevance in modern interior design, serving as striking features that will enrich your home environment.

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Sconces, most often, or wall brackets in older catalogues. A sconce is any light fixed to the wall rather than standing on something, and the traditional versions take their shapes from candle brackets: a backplate, a scrolled or straight arm, and a candle tube. We hold 353 of them, led by Hinkley, Feiss, Impex and Elstead.

Nothing, in practice. Sconce is the older word, now used mainly for decorative candle-style fittings, while wall light covers everything mounted on a wall including modern up-and-down boxes and reading lights. If someone specifies a sconce they usually mean a traditional arm and shade. Of our 353 traditional wall lights, 75 take the E14 candle cap.

2.5 to 3m along a wall, at a height of about 1.5 to 1.7m from the floor. Closer than 2.5m and the pools of light merge into a stripe, wider than 3m and the wall goes dark between them. Beside a fireplace or a bed, forget the spacing rule and make the pair symmetrical instead, which the eye notices more.

Only the rated ones, and we hold 39 traditional wall lights at IP44 for exactly this. The other 51 rated fittings in the range are IP20 and belong in a dry room. Which rating you need depends on the zone the light sits in, and bathroom electrical work is notifiable under Part P, so use a qualified electrician.

Small caps, because most are designed around a candle. E14 is commonest at 75 of the range, then E27 at 55 and G9 at 14, with a few older fittings still on B22 bayonet. A clear candle or golf LED in 2700K suits an open candle tube, and an opal one is better behind a fabric or frosted shade.

Only once rewired and tested. Original fittings often carry rubber or cloth-covered cable that has gone brittle, no earth, and lampholders rated for 100W filament bulbs nobody uses now. A competent electrician can rewire a period fitting and test it, which is the right route for something genuinely good. Never simply connect an untested old light.

As task lighting, and on a narrow route. A shaded sconce throws a soft pool up and down the wall rather than onto a page or a worktop, so it will not do for reading. Anything projecting 15 to 20cm is also a nuisance in a tight hallway or beside a door, where a flush fitting is the sensible answer.