Leaded Glass Landscape Sunrise – Brighton
Hello Julie, below is your drawing to show how your finished panel will look. As requested, we removed the detail (bridge, gazebo, trees) from the [...]
Brighton Decorative Glass
Founded in 1994, Leadbitter Glass has been manufacturing and delivering decorative glass throughout Brighton for over 30 years. Brighton’s Royal Pavilion, remodelled by architect John Nash between 1815 and 1822, holds a striking stained glass window beneath the dome of its Music Room, while the Regency terraces of Kemp Town and the Brunswick Estate, built from 1825, remain some of the finest examples of Regency architecture anywhere in Britain.
This depth of period architecture has always suited stained and etched glass particularly well, while bevelled and fused glass have become popular contemporary upgrades for many Brighton homes over the years. We specialise in creating and supplying Etched Glass, Bevelled Glass, Fused Glass, and Overlay Stained Glass panels. While we focus on providing bespoke glass to residential customers, our work has also been featured in blockbuster movies and supplied to some of the world’s largest corporations.
4 Types Of Decorative Glass Available…
1 – Etched Glass to Brighton
Of the many types of decorative glass we supply, Etched Glass is one of the most requested styles across Brighton, particularly for period front doors. The image below shows what etched glass looks like — an obscured background surrounding a clear design, though we also produce the reverse effect, with a clear background and an etched pattern. Our Etched Glass Gallery holds hundreds of designs, including our popular Traditional and Shadows of Nature collections.
Our Charles Rennie Mackintosh and House Names and Numbers galleries are also firm favourites with Brighton clients. We’re just as happy to create a bespoke etched panel from your own photograph or sketch. Every panel is available as either single or double glazed, and every order includes a scale proof for your approval before production begins.
2 – Overlay Stained Glass to Brighton
The photograph below is a genuine example of our Overlay Stained Glass, one of the styles we’re asked for most often by Brighton homeowners. Every panel is offered as single or double glazing, built as standard on toughened safety glass. Our Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Frank Lloyd Wright galleries remain particularly popular choices across the city.
Our Door Galleries feature plenty of further patterns beyond these, including our Countryside Landscapes range. Take a look at our Main Gallery for a good starting point, or simply send over your own idea or photograph — we design bespoke glass daily and can take inspiration from your existing panel, or from any image you provide.
3 – Fused Glass to Brighton
Below is one of our Fused Glass leaves, a familiar element within our fused glass patterns. Fused Glass has become a popular contemporary upgrade across many Brighton homes over the years, rather than a period feature in its own right. Each panel begins with an etched background, onto which individually hand-cut fused glass tiles are fixed, standing roughly 6mm proud of the surface. Every tile is made in our own UK studio, in whichever colours you prefer.
Our Mackintosh Gallery and Tree Of Life Gallery are two of our most popular fused glass collections. Each tile is hand-cut and fired in our kiln over roughly 18 hours, forming a genuinely one-off feature. Every fused panel is toughened, and available as single or double glazing.
4 – Bevelled Glass to Brighton
The window below is part of our American Bevelled Glass range, and a genuinely striking demonstration of the beauty of bevels. As with fused glass, bevelled glass has grown into a favoured contemporary upgrade across Brighton rather than an original period feature. We hold thousands of bevel patterns in our library, and can build toughened panels to virtually any design. Every order is single or double glazed as required, with a drawing supplied for your approval ahead of manufacture.
What We Do
Our decorative glass studio crafts bespoke glass panels for homes and businesses across Brighton, and delivers throughout the rest of the UK too, with occasional orders reaching us from overseas. Most of our customers are homeowners replacing tired or damaged glass. A plain or dated front door panel can be transformed with genuinely striking new decorative glass.
Toughened safety glass is standard on everything we make, and you can choose single, double, or triple glazing depending on your needs. Laminated and fire-rated glass are also available, sometimes at an additional cost.
Our service
Every order includes a preview of your design ahead of production. Our glass artists put together a high-quality proof so you can see exactly how the finished piece will look, and adjust the layout or colourway as many times as you need. We won’t begin manufacturing until you’re entirely happy.
Once complete, we deliver the finished glass straight to your Brighton address, or to your chosen window or door installer.
Notable Commissions from the Brighton area…
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Overlay Stained Glass Roses – Brighton
Hello Judith, below is your design as agreed using the colours you requested. The glass will be Minster glass and the lead will be our [...]
Etched Glass Door & Fanlight – Brighton
Hello David, I have drawn 2 options of your etched glass door & fanlight based on the design you have chosen. The background of the [...]
We supply Decorative Glass to Brighton and these surrounding areas…
Worthing – Eastbourne – Crawley – Bognor Regis – Royal Tunbridge Wells – Hastings – Leatherhead – Guildford – Sevenoaks – Croydon – Woking – Orpington – Aldershot – Bromley – Kingston Upon Thames – Portsmouth – Farnborough – Maidstone – Gosport – Richmond – Fareham – Dartford – Greenwich – Brentford – Westminster – Rochester – Gravesend – Chatham – Bracknell – Gillingham – Ashford – Windsor – Wembley – Basingstoke – Dagenham – Slough – Winchester – Eastleigh – Romford – Maidenhead