Stained glass projects.
We work extensively in stained glass, its restoration, conservation as well as creating new stained glass panels to your requirements.
From replacing a damaged stained glass panel in a front door to commissions of large scale new stained glass, we can help, contact us with your requirements and for a quote…
Call Adrian on 01223 891578 or email , thank you.
Attention seeking requires lead light repair
Attention seeking requires lead light repair since after all what better way than to use a thrown shoe? End of term required some celebration at Emmanuel College in Cambridge. Finding yourself locked out of your room in the University halls means you need the help of a fellow undergraduate. What better way to attract their attention than to throw a shoe at their window? I have repaired many leaded windows at Emmanuel College in the past and this is a simple repair. The lead came could be straightened and matching glass used to bring the...
read moreZinc lights take major restoration
2015 saw the major restoration for zinc lights in the former home of MP Sir Francis Pym near Gamlingay. He was legendary as one of Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet ‘wets’ and an influential politician. Old Woodbury House is located on Gamlingay Cinques with fantastic views out over the countryside and is part of Tetworth Estate – period pictures show how the house looked during the 1960′s The project was complex in that the window cames are formed by eight way folded zinc sheet which is soldered to form a distinct...
read moreSealing two million pound deal
Stained glass is sealing the two million pound deal for Emmanuel College in Cambridge. Four years ago we successfully completed the restoration of the glass for one of the Emmanuel College student houses see here Now the house has been sold by the college with the period glass the major selling point with local firm Bidwells sealing the deal for close on two million pounds Here is their advert text: You can’t get much closer to Cambridge train station than Glisson Road. This Victorian house has an impressive 7 bedrooms and...
read moreIcknield Way Parishes expand using Ketton Stained Glass
The seven churches within the Parishes of the Icknield Way have recently expanded their work with Ketton Stained Glass as I took on repairs to two other village churches. I have previously worked at Great and Little Chishill detailed here and now I have undertaken similar conservation and repair work at Heydon and Elmdon focusing on damaged panes like this: This latest phase of work was focused on preventing water ingress through holed panes including within the Elmdon Dial...
read moreRadley Ghost Stained Glass – Update
Time to update on the Radley Ghost stained glass panel which has been on display at the The Sir Henry Birkin Memorial Foundation headquarters in conjunction with the Rolls Royce Enthusiasts Club at Paulerspury near Silverstone as reported here The Foundation’s News has recently run an article on the panel which can be seen here: The RREC and HRMF building are a fabulous facility and host to many exhibits charting the products of Rolls Royce and Bentely over the period of the...
read moreJust in time for the Christmas break (in) – leaded glass restoration
Leaded glass restoration – just in time for the Christmas break one of my long term customers Bellerbys College in Cambridge suffered a pre-Christmas break in when an uninvited guest accessed the College through an upper floor leaded glass window. Bellerbys ongoing work can be seen here The opening window involved is the one to the left accessed from the roof: The window had been ‘jemmied’ in it’s entirety from the stone frame and as a result the leaded...
read moreRREC headquarters receives Rolls Royce stained glass
RREC headquarters receives Rolls Royce stained glass – back in the Spring the Radley Ghost panel was on display at P & A Wood which was detailed in a previous post here After that launch the panel went from Great Easton over to the Veteran Car Club’s headquarters in Ashwell to be part of the President’s Lunch display. During this excellent day I was introduced to Trevor Baldwin who is the Chairman of the Rolls Royce Enthusiasts Club. I am very pleased that the panel has now been relocated to the Rolls Royce...
read moreSolopark stained glass arrives
Solopark stained glass arrives – as I wrote in a previous blog here I have obtained stained glass from the Solopark group and this week I have another batch. Included was this interesting stained glass panel depicting a small blonde boy collecting windfall apples and apparently watched over the gate by his grandfather or possibly caught in the act of scrumping by the orchard owner! The sharp eyed amongst you will have noted the missing right hand corner where it has received a hard knock. I have the three shards of glass and when I...
read moreStained glass birds roost once again in Surbiton.
I have worked on a whole series of properties in Victoria Avenue, Surbiton and the latest has seen a major revamp to the frontage. These windows feature original Victorian stained glass bird roundels The leaded windows fitted were quite simplistic and had been updated at some point but did feature some wonderful Victorian painted roundels of birds which it was important to build back into the new designs. The front door featured three original Victorian leaded lights and we used this theme to drive the design. Colour choice was important and...
read moreSellotape works wonders holding stained glass…
One of the stained glass windows in this front door from Surbiton was badly in need of refreshing. The use of Sellotape holding panes in place always shows that problems have been building for some time. In this case some urgent action was required in order that the leaded window did not collapse entirely. The leaded units in front doors typically work hard with all the coming and going and the structure had begun to collapse with any number of cracked and weakened joints despite the window being supported by external steel re-bars to...
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