Mackintosh Doorway – Corby
Hello Brian, below is your drawing showing all 4 panels. The leaded glass panel will be made using Stippolyte Glass and the other three panels [...]
Decorative Glass Corby
Founded in 1994, Leadbitter Glass has been manufacturing and delivering decorative glass throughout Corby for over 30 years. Our Studio is located on the Earsltrees Industrial Estate near Rockingham Castle. Thousands of Scottish workers moved to Corby in the 20th century to work its steelworks, and rather than just passing through, they made the town genuinely their own — earning it the nickname “Little Scotland”, still used with real affection today.
A town built by people who settled in properly, not just moved through, has always suited stained and etched glass particularly well, while bevelled and fused glass have become popular contemporary upgrades for many Corby homes over the years. We specialise in creating and supplying Etched Glass, Bevelled Glass, Fused Glass, and 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 Corby
Of the many types of decorative glass we supply, Etched Glass is one of the most requested styles across Corby, 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 Corby 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 Corby
The photograph below is a genuine example of our Overlay Stained Glass, one of the styles we’re asked for most often by Corby 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 town.
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 Corby
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 Corby homes over the years, rather than a period feature in its own right. Each panel begins with an etched background, onto which individually handmade fused glass tiles are kiln fired and incorporated. 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 Corby
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 Corby 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 Corby, 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 Corby address, or to your chosen window or door installer.
Notable Commissions from the Corby area…
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Mackintosh Cabinet Glass – Corby
Hello Mary, here is your design using different reds and blues. As explained when you visited the studio, these colours are computer generated and we [...]
Stained Glass Peacock Feature Window – Corby
Hello Mrs Rhodes, the Overlay Stained Glass Peacock design is pictured with clear glass as the background so we have added a photographic background to [...]
Sun Ray style design – Corby
Hello Mr & Mrs Reynolds, the Overlay Stained Glass glass sun ray design is to scale using your sizes and the border is 20mm thick [...]
Trailing Roses – Corby
This Overlay Stained Glass Windows design was created for one of our trade customers so we do not actually know where the glass resides now. [...]
Stained Glass Door & Side Panels – Corby
Hi Kate, I think it would look better if we do not line the design through because if we take the coloured oval section of [...]
Bevelled Glass Door & Side Panels
Hello, here is a mock up of how your new bevelled glass door and side panels could look using the same type of bevels previously [...]
Leaded Bay Window Fanlights – Corby
The fanlight on the right is the small size and there are three units this size from the list of 23. I have tried to [...]
Large Bevelled Glass Arch – Weldon
This large executive home was built by its owners in 1999 and one of the many focal points of this amazing luxury home is this [...]
Leaded Glass Numbers – Corby
Quote ref: 2264 Northamptonshire Glass Commissions…. The Leadbitter Glass studio has created many stunning glass commissions around the Northamptonshire area and you can view some [...]
Stained Glass Art Deco Door – Corby
Option A will have the lead going to the edge of the glass as the original side panels do. Option B is what has been [...]
Side Panels – Corby
The 2 art deco side panels are exactly to scale but the door is not. We would use 6mm and 9mm antique lead for the [...]
Bevelled Glass Door and Side Panels
Below is the back door and at the bottom of the page is the side panel with 2 small panels lining through for the front [...]
Leaded Glass Kingfisher remake window
This leaded glass Kingfisher design was originally made by another company and the window was not manufactured using toughened glass. A few years later the [...]
Stained Glass Climbing Roses
Hi Chris, here is a mock up of how the Overlay Stained Glass window will look covered in a frost similar (ish) to Stippolyte. Image [...]
We supply Decorative Glass to Corby and these surrounding areas…
Kettering – Wellingborough – Rushden – Stamford – Northampton – Peterborough – Melton Mowbray – Leicester – Huntingdon – Rugby – St Neots – Bedford – Loughborough – Grantham – Milton Keynes – Spalding – Nuneaton – Biggleswade – Coventry – Nottingham – Leamington Spa – Wisbech – Leighton Buzzard – Banbury – Warwick – Letchworth – Cambridge – Newark-on-Trent – Ely – Dunstable – Tamworth – Derby – Luton – Boston – Bicester – Solihull – Stevenage – Aylesbury – Stratford upon Avon – Sutton Coldfield