Carlisle Bevelled Glass

Founded in 1994, the Leadbitter Glass Studio has been supplying Bevelled Glass panels to homes and businesses across Carlisle ever since, delivering to every other part of the UK too. Carlisle’s Victorian terraces, built up as the city grew around its railway and mills, were originally fitted with etched or stained glass, but Bevelled Glass has become a popular contemporary upgrade for homeowners right across the city, bringing a sharper, more reflective style of decorative glass to doors and windows.

Our Bevelled Glass panels are built from small individual pieces of glass, assembled together into striking patterns and supplied as single or double-glazed glass for windows and doors. With hundreds of stock designs to choose from — diamonds, squares, rectangles, teardrops and more — the possibilities are close to endless. The great majority of orders qualify for free delivery across Carlisle.

We’ve supplied 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 Carlisle. We also produce other styles of Decorative Glass for Carlisle clients, including Stained Glass, Etched Glass, and Fused Glass.

See your glass before we create it!

Will The Pattern Actually Suit My Door?

That’s a fair question to ask before committing to a bevel pattern, and it’s why we build a free Client Page for every Carlisle order. A few days after you order, we upload a drawing scaled precisely to your glass dimensions, so you can see how the bevels sit against your own door rather than guessing from a stock photo. Ask for the layout tightened up or shifted along the panel and we’ll amend it — as many times as needed — before anything is cut.

American Bevelled Glass

American Bevelled Glass is among our most requested styles, made up of hundreds of small rectangular and square bevels set edge to edge across the whole panel. It’s a style with deep roots in American glasswork, and one you’ll likely recognise from film and television. Our rectangular pencil bevels are available in a wide range of widths and lengths, giving our glass artists real scope to design something distinctive for your Carlisle home.

Each bevel is fitted by hand and UV bonded onto a single sheet of toughened safety glass. The old-fashioned method relied on lead alone to hold every piece in place, with no supporting glass base underneath — a construction closer to a jigsaw puzzle than a solid window.

Our modern technique solves the drawbacks of that older approach. A single sheet of toughened glass closes off the gaps a lead-only “jigsaw” panel would otherwise leave for cold air, and it’s also available as a double-glazed unit for further insulation. Certain bevel shapes and clusters come in bronze, blue, or green glass, with a Gluechip texture available on select pieces for added character.

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

Browse Our Bevelled Glass Galleries

Our website holds one of the largest collections of decorative glass patterns anywhere. Browse hundreds of Bevelled Glass designs in our main gallery, and change the door colour to see how your preferred pattern would look against your own door. Visit the Main Gallery to see what’s possible.

Notable Bevelled Glass Commissions from the Carlisle area…