South London Stained Glass

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New cooperation expands capacity

We have started to work occasionally with Janette Smith of Greenwich based Glass Art by Design, particularly on larger on-site repair and refurbishment projects. This means work can be completed quicker and we get out of clients hair faster! Recent work include repairs at a Church in Brockly, modifying and refurbishing a large hall window near Olympia, and repairs at the Law Courts in the Strand…….

In Court

One of the projects we've been working on with Janette is repairing leaded light in the Royal Courts of Justice in The Strand. These are the Appeal Courts, second only to the House of Lords - and it feels quite a privilege to be in there out of hours - and not a little spooky!

Stained Glass for Therapy for the Elderly

At the end of March we supplied (through South East London Builders) a leaded panel for a window for a room being created as a multi-sensory and healing environment for stimulating the senses of sight, touch, smell and the emotions at Minnie Kidd House, part of Lambeth PCT, in the NHS. Minnie Kidd House is a twenty-eight bedded unit that provides specialist nursing care for elderly people in Lambeth aged sixty years and over who require complex care packages. Most of the clients have elements of cognitive impairment and varying degrees of dementia. This project, one of a series of this type supported by the King's Fund aims to allow residents the ability to exert an effect on their environment and produce pleasurable experiences for themselves.

Stained glass in South London

Interesting glass can be seen as the following locations:

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

We had a few enquiries recently about CRM designs. I recently had to go to Glasgow, and took tea in the Willow Tea Rooms on Sauchiehall Street - which is one of the series that he glazed - you have to go right upstairs to find the really interesting room - and the use of mirror in the panels that line the room, as well as a flat surfaced deep pink opal glass is interesting, along with a very complex design for the doors. So if anyone is thinking about a Mackintosh pattern - we are ready for you!

What your number?

We just had 2 clients who wanted (or maybe were persuaded) to have their house number done in the traditional way with white opal glass - we think these look great…..


Stick it

The moulded centre 'jewel' of this small panel (from Streatham) was broken during a break in, along with much of the rest of glass when the miscreant smashed through it to open the door. It would have been impossible to match the 'jewel', and to have replaced it with something else would have looked odd as they are intact in the rest of the panels. Its been glued along the edges with transparent 'glass superglue' which sets on exposure to UV light, and (with a bit of luck) gives an incredibly strong bond, and an almost invisible repair.

Some of our recent work

Although we say its South London Stained Glass (being a South London lad….) We've had a rash of jobs in the West. We performed some restoration on a large hall sash window in a lovely mansion flat just off the North End Road - and to add interest to it by replacing some of the clear glass from which it is almost entirely made up with some subtle colour. A Client in N Kensington who has been getting the Edwardian feel back nto a house near Latimer Road need to replace the dreadful 'wirecast' glass in his front door. We spent some time in discussion of patterns, texture and colours of glass and ended up with this interpretation of some of the original glass in the area. A Client near Parsons Green wanted a very simple panel to add interest to a new downstairs loo. There is a subtle contrast between the texture of the clear (English muffle) glass and that of the blue main panel.