Stained Glass Yeovil
Founded in 1994, the Leadbitter Glass Studio has been supplying Overlay Stained Glass panels to homes and businesses across Yeovil ever since, delivering to every other part of the UK too. St John the Baptist Church, known locally as “the Lantern of the West” for the sheer amount of daylight admitted by its huge Perpendicular Gothic windows, holds a striking Victorian window depicting Judas Iscariot marked out with a black halo.
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 Yeovil.
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 Yeovil. We also produce other styles of Decorative Glass for Yeovil clients, including Bevelled Glass, Etched Glass, and Fused Glass.
See your glass before we create it!
Our Free Client Pages Design Service
Every Yeovil order comes with a private Client Page, and within a few days of ordering, a full-colour drawing of your panel appears there, built to scale. If a shade needs deepening or a motif enlarging, tell us and we’ll amend it — we’ll keep revising for as long as it takes, and won’t start production until you’ve confirmed you’re happy.
Image above created using Minster Glass.
How Our Stained Glass Is Made
Traditional leaded glass is really a mosaic of small pieces held together by soft lead, which is exactly why draughts and cracks find their way in over time. We build our Overlay Stained Glass onto a single sheet of toughened safety glass instead, applying both the leadwork and the colour directly onto that one continuous surface.
Pilkington K Glass is also available where required, and current building regulations call for it on new window and door installations across Yeovil and the rest of the UK.
Every panel is manufactured using toughened or laminated safety glass, since durability matters to us as much as design.
Plenty of homeowners have a story about spending good money on traditional leaded glass, only for individual pieces to crack within weeks. 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 design. Once complete, the sheet is turned over and the colourwork begins, with each section painted individually inside its own leaded boundary.
Matching lead lines are then added to the back, mirroring the front exactly, so the finished panel is leaded and coloured on both faces rather than just one.
A choice of lead finishes is available — see our Leaded Glass page for details.
Ready to have Overlay Stained Glass, or any other decorative glass, made for your Yeovil 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.
We supply Stained Glass to Yeovil and these surrounding areas…
Bridgwater – Taunton – Weymouth – Weston-super-Mare – Trowbridge – Poole – Bath – Bournemouth – Tiverton – Salisbury – Exeter – Barry – Lymington – Torquay – Newton Abbot – Cwmbran – Andover – Southampton – Paignton – Eastleigh – Swindon – Bridgend – Winchester – Dartmouth – Cirencester – Abergavenny – Fareham – Newbury – Gloucester – Gosport – Portsmouth – Cheltenham – Basingstoke – Neath – Didcot – Hereford – Plymouth – Abingdon On Thames – Reading – Chichester