Large leaded windows

This pair of widows on adjacent staircase landing levels are in 5 tints of English Muffle glass with 100mm amber glass roundels – the glass echoes the rest of the windows in the house. The larger of these panels is 2.5m tall.  They are fitted behind double glazed units pre-installed by the main contractors.  The thicker horizontal lines are from support bars, installed where the sections join – they are too big to be made in one piece (the smaller window is in 2 pieces and the larger in 3).  In addition to the bars there are internal supports, set between the edge of the glass and the lead.

Fitted in October 2014.

Stained glass door panels, Peckham

We’d made and fitted the pair of higher level panels on the left of this (rather fuzzy) photo in 2010, and our clients came back for the door panels to be based on the same idea. These are fitted with quite hefty support bars, although their alignment with the horizontal lead lines means they aren’t particularly apparent.

Fitted in December 2011.

Stained Glass Dulwich, SE21

Our client in West Dulwich wanted a new stained glass panel for the fanlight above the front door, to be in keeping with the glass in the 2 main door panels. We visited to measure and photograph the exiting, noting the glass used previously. The brief included the possibility of simplifying the pattern somewhat in the interests of economy. We matched a number of the types of glass with the original since the panels were relatively new and the glass still in production. We were pleased to hear that ‘the door looks great now!’

Fitted July 2011.

Restored stained glass - Balham

This pair of panels, which had been partly restored in the past, had suffered bowing and a few broken pieces - mainly because they were inadequately retained in the door. Previous work had replaced one of the painted birds (presumably broken) with a plain disc of glass We were asked to restore the panels, and make them more secure. A new bird was provided and the panels partly disassembled and then re-leaded. They were refitted in June 2010 behind panels of laminated safety glass.

Installation of leaded panels behind laminated safety glass affords much greater security, since it is almost impossible to penetrate.  It also provides protection to the leaded panel, particularly for busy households. If installed on the outside – providing maximum deterrent factor, the outer sheet of glass means that the external appearance particularly in daylight is different to an unprotected panel due to reflections.The appearance from the inside is unaffected.  Some clients decide that they prefer the unprotected option, whist others are happy to accept the look, given the security provided; the unchanged appearance from the inside, and that at night the internal lighting, usually from the hall, tends to overcome the reflections, which are quite visible in this shot.

Peckham Stained Glass, SE15

This pair of leaded panels installed in Peckham - East Dulwich replace a pair of plain leaded lights in a fomer bakery, now converted into a home. There is quite a mixture of different types of glass, and the 2 panels are unified by the plain red innder border. The 4 cobalt blue roundels add extra interest, and the 2 panels aren't exactly symetrical...

As a comparsion, here's how it was before...

Fitted Feb 2010

Blackheath Leaded Glass Panels

This pair of panels was fitted in time for Christmas 2009, for a client for whom we had worked previously. We like the double border, which gives good definition to the panels, which are made mainly in the pastel tints of English Muffle glass.  Waterglass is sued for the amber petals of the central flowers.

Dulwich - New leaded glass door set

Fitted August 2009. The client's contractor has arranged for the missing timber glazing bars that divide the main space into the central octagon and 4 corner panels to be reinstated in the door. The leaded panels were then made from templates. The patterns include hand-spun glass roundels in dark violet glass.