Stained Glass Thirsk
Founded in 1994, the Leadbitter Glass Studio has been supplying Stained Glass panels to homes and businesses across Thirsk ever since, delivering to every other part of the UK too. Thirsk was the real-life home of vet and author James Herriot, whose books turned an ordinary working practice into stories read around the world.
We design and build every panel in our own studio — from a photo you send, an idea you describe, or a pattern from the hundreds already in our gallery. Stained Glass comes as toughened single glazing or a double-glazed unit, and suits a front door, a landing window, or any other glazed opening equally well. Most orders qualify for free delivery across Thirsk.
Our work has gone into a Prime Minister’s home, Hollywood film sets, and the residences of well-known musicians and billionaires, though homeowners across Thirsk still account for most of what leaves our studio. We also produce other styles of Decorative Glass for local clients, including Bevelled Glass, Etched Glass, and Fused Glass.
See your glass before we create it!
Our Free Client Pages Design Service
Every Thirsk order gets a private Client Page, where a full-colour, scaled drawing of your design lands within a few days. Want a colour deepened, or a motif made bigger? Let us know and we’ll amend it and send it back — happy to make sure it’s a design worth telling people about.
Image above created using Minster Glass.
How Our Stained Glass Is Made
Traditional leaded glass is a patchwork of small pieces held by soft lead, which is exactly why it cracks and lets the weather in as it ages — hardly a story anyone would want to tell. Our Stained Glass takes the opposite approach, applying both leadwork and colour directly onto one continuous sheet of toughened safety glass, built to turn an everyday door into something worth noticing, in the same way Thirsk’s own James Herriot turned everyday work into stories worth reading.
Pilkington K Glass is available on request, and current building regulations require it for new window and door installations across Thirsk and the rest of the UK.
Every panel is built from toughened or laminated safety glass, since durability matters to us just as much as how the finished piece looks.
We hear it often — a homeowner pays good money for traditional leaded glass, only to watch individual pieces crack within weeks of fitting. Our Stained Glass was built specifically to put that problem to rest.
Our process
We shape lead strips onto the toughened glass first, tracing an uncoloured outline of your chosen design. Once that’s done, we turn the glass over and colour it piece by piece, each section held within its own leaded boundary.
Matching lead lines then go onto the reverse to mirror the front exactly, so the finished panel is leaded and coloured on both faces, not just the one you see.
A range of lead finishes is also available — see our Leaded Glass page for the full range.
Ready to have Stained Glass, or any other decorative glass, made for your Thirsk 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.
We supply Stained Glass to Thirsk and these surrounding areas…
Ripon – Harrogate – Wetherby – York – Darlington – Stockton on Tees – Middlesbrough – Leeds – Hartlepool – Selby – Bradford – Pontefract – Scarborough – Wakefield – Dewsbury – Halifax – Huddersfield – Beverley – Sunderland – Washington – Barnsley – Burnley – Doncaster – Gateshead – Newcastle – Scunthorpe – Hull – South Shields – Accrington – Rochdale – Rotherham – Blackburn – Oldham – Sheffield – Ashton Under Lyne – Lancaster – Gainsborough – Bolton – Manchester – Preston