Stained glass Indian Elephant – Bedford
Hello Manjit & Alan, this Overlay Stained Glass Indian Elephant design is created using ideas from the images that you sent over by email. Please [...]
Stained Glass Bedford
Founded in 1994, the Leadbitter Glass Studio has been supplying Overlay Stained Glass panels to homes and businesses across Bedford ever since, delivering to every other part of the UK too. St Paul’s Church, the largest Anglican church in Bedfordshire, holds an extensive collection of stained glass, much of it funded through the Harpur Trust — a tradition of local generosity that’s shaped this town’s buildings for centuries.
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 Bedford.
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 Bedford. We also produce other styles of Decorative Glass for Bedford clients, including Bevelled Glass, Etched Glass, and Fused Glass.
See your glass before we create it!
Our Free Client Pages Design Service
Every Bedford order comes with a private Client Page, where a full-colour drawing of your design, built to scale, appears a few days after you order. If a colour needs deepening, or a motif needs enlarging, tell us and we’ll amend it and send it back — as many rounds as you need. We only begin manufacturing once you’re happy with what you see.
Image above created using Minster Glass.
How Our Stained Glass Is Made
Traditional leaded glass is a patchwork of small pieces held together by soft lead, which is exactly why it’s so prone to cracking and letting the weather in as it ages — not much of a legacy for a piece meant to last. Our Overlay Stained Glass takes a longer view, applying both the leadwork and the colour directly onto one continuous sheet of toughened safety glass, rather than piecing together dozens of separate fragments.
Pilkington K Glass is also available on request, and is required by current building regulations for new window and door installations across Bedford and the rest of the UK.
Every panel is manufactured using toughened or laminated safety glass, since durability matters to us as much as how the finished design looks.
Plenty of homeowners have a story about traditional leaded glass costing good money, 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 complete, the glass is turned over and coloured piece by piece, each section held within its own leaded boundary.
Matching lead lines are then added to 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 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 Bedford 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.
Notable Stained Glass Commissions from the Bedford area…
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We supply Stained Glass to Bedford and these surrounding areas…
Biggleswade – St Neots – Rushden – Milton Keynes – Letchworth – Wellingborough – Leighton Buzzard – Dunstable – Luton – Huntingdon – Northampton – Stevenage – Kettering – Welwyn Garden City – Cambridge – Corby – Aylesbury – Hemel Hempstead – St Albans – Hatfield – Hertford – Ware – Peterborough – Bishops Stortford – Hoddesdon – Watford – Bicester – Harlow – Stamford – Ely – High Wycombe – Enfield – Rugby – Banbury – Newmarket – Waltham Abbey – Loughton – Uxbridge – Wembley – Oxford