Stained Glass Trypych

 My customers had seen a job I made for some friends of theirs and wanted something similar for 3 horizontal windows in their conservatory. The design they initially saw was this one...

                      

and then saw a photo of a stained glass fanlight at Leeds Central Library...

I revised a few elements of this design and found some beautiful handspun pale green roundels...

                        

 The conservatory looked out onto an amazing garden full of life and colour and the brief was for something leafy either side of the fan shape to compliment the garden view. Two birds, a robin and a bluetit were included.

The panels were then sealed into units to replace the existing units...

Glasses used were a mix of hand made greens, reds and background glass (Lamberts, Hartley Wood, Tatra. St Just) with machine made glasses for the central fan panel and the birds. A very enjoyable job!

Corbett house Hither Green

 Archibold Corbett built a number of large estates in South East London in the late 1800's and early 1900's. His estates are well known for being quality builds and there is much civic pride in owning one of these houses. I was fortunate to be asked to make new door panels and fanlight in a style typical of the period. The photo below shows the old door before the new door was made to match the original street style.

New door set!

Photo courtesy of Elijah Gassan

To find out more about Corbett houses click here; The Archibold Corbett Society.