Stained Glass Tonbridge

Founded in 1994, the Leadbitter Glass Studio has been supplying Overlay Stained Glass panels to homes and businesses across Tonbridge ever since, delivering to every other part of the UK too. St Peter and St Paul’s Church, built in the late 11th century alongside Tonbridge Castle, holds an east window by Leonard Walker and James Powell & Sons from 1954, built almost entirely from unpainted glass with a genuinely jewel-like quality.

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 Tonbridge.

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

See your glass before we create it!

Our Free Client Pages Design Service

Every Tonbridge order comes with a private Client Page, where a full-colour drawing of your panel, built to scale, appears a few days after you order. If a shade needs deepening, or a motif making bolder, tell us and we’ll amend it and send it back — as many rounds as you need. We only begin manufacturing once you’ve confirmed you’re happy with what you see.

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. Our Overlay Stained Glass is built on sturdier ground — both the leadwork and the colour are applied directly onto one continuous sheet of toughened safety glass, with no lattice of separate pieces to work loose over time.

Pilkington K Glass is also available on request, and is required by current building regulations for new window and door installations across Tonbridge 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 spending good money on traditional leaded glass, only for individual pieces to crack within weeks. Our Overlay Stained Glass was built 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 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, giving you a panel that’s leaded and coloured on both faces, not just the one you see first.

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 Tonbridge 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.