Stained Glass Windsor

Founded in 1994, the Leadbitter Glass Studio has been supplying Overlay Stained Glass panels to homes and businesses across Windsor ever since, delivering to every other part of the UK too. St George’s Chapel, within the walls of Windsor Castle, holds England’s third-largest stained glass window — the West Window, completed in the early 1500s and still showing much of its original Tudor glass across 75 individual figures.

Every panel is designed and manufactured in our own Decorative Glass Studio — either from your own photo or idea, or from one of the hundreds of patterns in our gallery. Our Overlay Stained Glass comes as either toughened single glazing or a resilient double-glazed unit, and suits a front door, a landing window, or any other glazed opening in the home equally well. The great majority of orders qualify for free delivery across Windsor.

We’ve supplied Overlay Stained Glass for a Prime Minister’s home, for Hollywood film sets, and for well-known musicians and billionaires — though the vast majority of what we make is still for homeowners across Windsor. We also produce other styles of Decorative Glass for Windsor clients, including Bevelled Glass, Etched Glass, and Fused Glass.

See your glass before we create it!

Our Free Client Pages Design Service

Every Windsor order comes with a private Client Page, and within a few days of ordering we upload a full-colour, to-scale drawing of your design. If a shade needs adjusting, or a motif making bolder, tell us and we’ll amend it — as many times as it takes. Production only begins once every detail has your approval.

Image above created using Minster Glass.

How Our Stained Glass Is Made

Traditional leaded glass is a mosaic of small pieces held together by soft lead, which is exactly why it’s so prone to cracking and draughts as the years pass. Our Overlay Stained Glass avoids that weakness entirely, applying both the leadwork and the colour directly onto a single sheet of toughened safety glass — there’s no lattice of separate pieces to come apart.

Pilkington K Glass is also available on request, and is required by current building regulations for new window and door installations across Windsor and the rest of the UK.

Every panel is manufactured using toughened or laminated safety glass, since durability matters just as much to us as how the finished design looks.

It’s not unusual for homeowners to have spent a small fortune on traditional leaded glass, only to see individual pieces crack within weeks of fitting. Our Overlay Stained Glass was designed specifically to avoid that.

Our process

We hand-shape lead strips onto the toughened glass first, tracing an uncoloured outline of your chosen design. Once that’s done, the glass is turned over and coloured section by section, with each piece painted individually inside its own leaded boundary.

Matching lead lines are then applied to the back, mirroring the front exactly, so what you receive is leaded and coloured on both faces, not just the one you see.

A choice of lead finishes is available too — see our Leaded Glass page for the full range.

Ready to have Overlay Stained Glass, or any other decorative glass, made for your Windsor home or business? Get in touch today for an accurate quote and turnaround time.

Browse Our Leaded Glass Galleries

Our website holds one of the largest collections of decorative glass patterns anywhere. Browse hundreds of Leaded Glass designs in our main gallery, arranged by theme and by door style, to find the right pattern — or simply for inspiration towards your own. Visit the Main Gallery to see what’s possible.