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The Rochester Lantern Collection: Gothic Lighting Grandeur & Medieval Nobility
Introduce a commanding aura of fortress-grade security, legendary craftsmanship, and romantic castle styling to your property with the Rochester Copper Lantern. Inspired by the rugged, epic scale of historical European fortresses and the legendary halls of the Knights of the Round Table, this extraordinary fixture symbolizes sophisticated, exquisite lighting at its finest. Defined by its robust tapered frame and sweeping wrought-iron ornamental ironwork, the Rochester serves as a regal introduction to elite illumination that wraps your family estate in rich comfort, heavy metal texture, and timeless honor.
Individually Handcrafted in the USA
When quality matters and only the best will do, the Rochester collection honors ancient metal-forging traditions with modern structural engineering. Each unit is individually handcrafted in the USA by custom design specialists who forge, roll, and rivet premium heavy-gauge copper entirely by hand. Built as a legacy fortification for your estate, this powerhouse fixture is engineered to endure beautifully against heavy weather, developing a deeper historic character over decades of family service.
Majestic Gothic Scrollwork & Fortress Silhouette
The Rochester balances intimidating, rock-solid proportions with fluid, artistic movement:
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The Regal Knights of the Round Table Filigree: The center stage of this masterpiece is its hand-shaped cursive scroll overlays that wrap every glass panel. This flowing, intersecting metalwork guards the internal light source like historical wrought-iron palace gates, casting a dramatic, romantic play of shadow and light across your masonry.
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Tapered Pier Pedestal Architecture: The multi-sided lantern body tapers sharply toward a heavy base collar before expanding into a spectacular, flared scroll pedestal mount. This magnificent flared support stand ensures the fixture balances perfectly on prominent stone columns, entry piers, or courtyard walkways.
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The Regally Stepped Crown: A heavily stepped, tiered copper cap crowns the lantern, detailed with crisp moldings and finished with a solid metal loop finial. This high-arched top gives the lantern a stately vertical presence, ensuring it commands attention wherever more light is needed.
Tailored to Your Design Palette
A true custom estate deserves a fixture configured to its precise architectural narrative. The Rochester collection features an extensive menu of custom options:
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Bespoke Power Configurations: Choose from multiple electric Edison and Candelabra multi-bulb clusters (pictured with a glowing multi-bulb candelabra tree), or opt for traditional gas lighting options to experience a living, flickering palace flame.
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Unlimited Finish Colors: Customize the premium copper chassis with unlimited finish color choices—from the deeply distressed, textured dark oil-rubbed bronze/antique finish pictured, to a brilliant raw living copper or sleek matte black.
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Premium Glass Varieties: Control the diffusion and texture of your golden wash with numerous glass varieties, including Clear (pictured), Seedy, Antique, Water, Mirror, Frosted, or No Glass.
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Versatile Mounting Foundations: While pictured here on an elite post/pier mount foundation, the Rochester architecture easily scales into heavy-duty ceiling pendants for a kitchen island light, flush wall sconces, or chain-hung corridor lights.
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Proportional Scaling: Available in an array of standard sizes from Mini to Triple Grande, alongside fully custom design sizes built directly to your contractor's blueprints.
The Teton Lighting Commitment
"The Rochester Lantern revives the epic romance and heavy presence of medieval design, grounding your property's architectural profile with a permanent statement of strength, nobility, and American craftsmanship."
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International Shipping: We proudly share luxury American craftsmanship with discerning property owners globally, offering premium international shipping options.
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Mainland USA Advantage: Enjoy the effortless luxury of direct delivery with Free Shipping straight to the mainland USA.
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Satisfaction Guaranteed: Shop with absolute peace of mind, knowing your custom artisan investment is completely protected by our ironclad Satisfaction Guarantee.
Bring the unforgettable look of classical Gothic geometry and premium handcrafted styling to your layout. Elevate your estate with the Rochester Collection today.
St. James Lighting is a true custom lighting resource, taking you seamlessly from concept to completion. At St. James Lighting, our talented artisans have been designing and manufacturing beautiful custom copper lighting Columbia, Mississippi since 2008.
Our dedicated, client focused team includes in-house designers, engineers, tooling, and manufacturing. Our customers appreciate the creativity, quality, and detailed design hand crafted into each light we produce.
Our products are designed to integrate performance with style. Exceeding our client’s expectations for quality, service, and artful design is what we thrive on.
We don’t just make lights…. we make lights for YOU!
This is an AMAZING custom design we did - please contact us for additional sizes and line drawings.
All of our St. James Lights are HANDCRAFTED for excellence with NO assembly line production- which takes time. If you are looking for the BEST, you have just found it!
The comment we receive the most from our clients is they LOVE the great looks of their lights and they can see the quality and craftsmanship built into their new lights- it was well WORTH the WAIT!
Please allow us 10-12 weeks to individually handcraft a masterpiece for you! Custom designs may take a bit longer.
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***Either natural gas or propane gas fixtures requires an ON/OFF Auto-Ignition and a 110 line voltage which allows you to operate your gas lantern with a light switch or other device. Otherwise, the lantern will remain lit 24/7.
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An auto-ignition on/off option is available, just put a timer on it and you have complete control over when your lights come on and goes off, also saving on gas. For those who prefer copper electric lanterns we offer the Edison Base Sockets or a Candelabra Cluster for a beautiful light appeal.
With so many options, you are sure find the perfect look for your home! Whether you prefer hanging gas lights, post mounts or wall mounts, there are many mounting brackets to choose from.
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Why Choose a St. James Lantern?
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Individually Hand-Crafted to meet your needs:
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You get exactly what you want for your indoor and outdoor lighting needs because YOU design your light from 6 beautiful finishes, 4 glass options, 3-5 sizes depending upon the style & 5 electric options.
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Hand-Crafted Quality second to none:
St. James Lights are called “lifetime fixtures” because when you purchase a St. James Lantern or Chandelier, you are making an investment that will last a lifetime and will be the last light fixtures you will ever need to buy. Each light is individually hand-crafted and inspected to ensure that you receive the highest quality lantern or chandelier available anywhere in the world.
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Elegant Looks and Beauty:
Designed and engineered to set the standard for elegant lighting, St. James Lights increase in beauty as the copper ages.
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Durability and Longevity:
St. James Lighting are made from the best copper mined in the U.S., which has a projected life of 300 years. Less expensive zinc or aluminum metals are not used. Expensive copper brazing rods are used versus cheaper soldering methods and an expensive riveting machine is used versus cheaper and faster pop rivet methods used by many.
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Made in America:
We are proud to be American made in Columbia, Mississippi and 100% of every part is made in the USA. No parts or assembly come from China, like many do.
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Will you assist us in Selecting Light Fixtures?
Yes, we offer our clients our free design service by trained and experienced staff. Send us your plans, room sizes, ceiling heights or photos of your room, house or outdoor areas where you plan to install your lights and we will draft a customized lighting analysis which will give you the proper light size and style that will best complement your home or outdoor areas. If there are special lighting needs you have, please include those too.
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Do you ship worldwide?
Yes, call or email us with the country and address you would like shipped to with the light style, size and quantity and we will get you a quote. Approved for use in Canada.
