Stained Glass Bevelery

Founded in 1994, the Leadbitter Glass Studio has been supplying Overlay Stained Glass panels to homes and businesses across Beverley ever since, delivering to every other part of the UK too. Beverley Minster’s Great East Window holds the building’s oldest surviving glass, some of it dating back to around 1220, reassembled into its current form in 1725 — a reminder of just how long stained glass has been shaping this town’s skyline.

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 Beverley.

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 Beverley. We also produce other styles of Decorative Glass for Beverley clients, including Bevelled Glass, Etched Glass, and Fused Glass.

See your glass before we create it!

Our Free Client Pages Design Service

Every Beverley order gets a private Client Page, where a full-colour drawing of your design, built to scale, appears within a few days. There’s no pressure to approve it straight away — study it properly, and if a colour needs deepening or a motif needs enlarging, tell us and we’ll amend it. We’ll go round as many times as you need before a single piece of lead touches the glass.

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 — a real concern for a design meant to make a statement. Our Overlay Stained Glass avoids that fragility altogether, applying both the leadwork and the colour directly onto one continuous sheet of toughened safety glass, so a large, ambitious pattern is just as sound as a small one.

Pilkington K Glass is also available on request, and is required by current building regulations for new window and door installations across Beverley 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 reads properly whichever direction you view it from — an important detail on a window meant to be seen from the street as much as from inside.

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 Beverley 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.