Traditional Overlay Stained Glass Victorian Door – London
Hi Lorna, below is our drawing of the door glass pattern you requested. The dashed line shows the visible area and the base glass is [...]
London Stained Glass
Founded in 1994, the Leadbitter Glass Studio has been supplying Overlay Stained Glass panels to homes and businesses across London ever since, delivering to every other part of the UK too. The Victorian terraces of Kensington, Chelsea, and Battersea helped establish stained glass fanlights and door panels as a defining feature of the London home — a Gothic Revival taste for colour and pattern that swept the capital’s middle-class housing through the second half of the 19th century.
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 London.
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 London. We also produce other styles of Decorative Glass for London clients, including Bevelled Glass, Etched Glass, and Fused Glass.
See your glass before we create it!
Our Free Client Pages Design Service
Every order comes with free access to our Client Pages design service. A few days after you order, we’ll send a computer-generated proof built to your exact glass sizes and colourway, so you can see precisely how the finished panel will look. Ask for a different border, an adjusted shade, or a resized motif — we’ll keep refining the drawing until you’re happy, and production only begins once you’ve signed it off.
Image above created using Minster Glass.
How Overlay Stained Glass Is Made
Our technique holds a real advantage over traditional stained glass when it comes to keeping a home warm. The entire design is built by hand onto a single, unbroken sheet of toughened safety glass, so there’s no joint anywhere for draughts to work through.
Pilkington K Glass is also available on request, and is now required by building regulations for new window and door installations across London and the rest of the UK.
We take durability and security as seriously as design, which is why every panel is manufactured with toughened or laminated safety glass from the outset.
It wasn’t unusual, in the past, for homeowners to spend thousands of pounds on traditional leaded glass, only to see individual coloured pieces cracking within weeks of installation. That simply isn’t something you’ll experience with Overlay Stained Glass.
Our process
We begin by hand-shaping lead strips onto a solid sheet of toughened glass, tracing out an uncoloured outline of your chosen design. The glass is then turned over, and the colourwork begins — each piece of stained glass overlay colour is individually cut and set between the leaded lines.
Once the coloured side is complete, matching lead strips are applied to the reverse, mirroring the design exactly. What emerges is a panel that’s fully leaded and fully coloured on both faces, built entirely by hand.
A range of different lead finishes is available too — see our Leaded Glass section for more.
Ready to have Overlay Stained Glass, or any other decorative glass, made for your London 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 London area…
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Victorian Overlay Stained Glass Vestibule – London
Hello all, below is our drawing of your 7 double glazed units based on our 664 design. The textured glass is Stippolyte as requested. Please [...]
Abstract Stained Glass Door Entryway – London E10
Hi, below is my first version of your required design. The border starts 35mm from the glass edge so as you didn’t give visible sizes, [...]
Victorian Style Leaded Glass – London SW1
Hi Tim, below is your drawing to show you the leaded design you supplied looks in your specific glass sizes. The glass we will use [...]
Mackintosh Doors and Windows – London
In 2013, we created a series of leaded, bevelled and etched glass panels based on our Mackintosh Margaret’s Rose design for a clients Georgian home [...]
1930s Leaded Glass Frank Lloyd Wright Door – London
In 2017, a client of ours undertook a project to renovate the entryway of their London home, namely by breathing life into their 1930s style front [...]
Overlay Stained Glass Doorway – London N8
Hello Rory and Michelle, below is your drawing showing you how our 350 design looks in your glass sizes and with a matching number fanlight. [...]
Leaded Glass Doorway – London
Hello Jonathan, below is your drawing shown in your glass sizes. The dashed line shows the visible area and we would use our 6mm wide [...]
1930s Overlay Stained Glass Arch Door – London
Hello Charlotte and Daniel, below is your chosen design shown in your glass sizes. The dashed line shows the visible area of the glass once [...]
Art Deco Leaded Glass – London
Hello Becka, below is your drawing to show you how the glass will look using Minster glass as requested. We would use 9mm Aged Lead [...]
Frank Lloyd Wright Glass Door – London
Hello, here is your chosen design shown in your glass sizes of 288 x 900. The dashed line shows what is probably the visible area [...]
1930s Leaded Glass Frank Lloyd Wright Door – London
Hello Stephen, below is your chosen Frank Lloyd Wright Illinois Range design shown in your glass sizes. We do not know exactly where the main [...]
Leaded Glass Fanlights – London
Hello Drew, below are your drawings to show you how your Frank Lloyd Wright Illinois Range glass will look in your specific glass sizes. The [...]
Overlay Stained Glass Circles Squares – London
Hello Katherine, here is your chosen FLW The Playhouse design shown in your glass sizes. The white areas shown will be clear glass and we [...]
Leaded Glass Matching Side panel – London
Hi Judith, below is the new drawing of your side panel. Please ignore the texture appearance in the centre sections of the design as the [...]
Overlay Stained Glass Landscape – London
Hi Anna, here is your chosen glass design. I decided to add a blue to portray a lake but I can make it a green [...]
Traditional Stained Glass Door – London E3
Hello Laird, here is your design as requested. The base glass would be Minster glass and the leaded lines would be our dark lead Option [...]
Stained Glass Roundels Door – London
In 2010 we created these four stunning glass panels for a new door for a clients home. The glass was created as four double glazed units [...]
Landing Window Leaded Glass Copy – London NW7
Hello Viv, here is your drawing shown in your glass sizes of 500 x 1260 as requested. The glass used would be Minster glass and [...]
Rennie Mackintosh 6 Piece Door – London SW14
Hello Malcolm, here is your drawing of your Blythswood Rose design as requested. The whole glass would be Stippolyte glass as shown and the lead [...]
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We supply Stained Glass to London and these surrounding areas…
Westminster – Greenwich – Wembley – Brentford – Richmond – Croydon – Bromley – Kingston Upon Thames – Dagenham – Loughton – Orpington – Waltham Abbey – Romford – Watford – Dartford – Leatherhead – Hatfield – Hoddesdon – St Albans – Hertford – Slough – Harlow – Windsor – Welwyn Garden City – Sevenoaks – Ware – Gravesend – Woking – Maidenhead – Basildon – Guildford – Stevenage – Bracknell – Crawley – High Wycombe – Luton – Rochester – Wickford – Chatham – Chelmsford