We’ve an exciting project to share with you this week here at Coriander Stained Glass as we cover the steps in restoring a piece of Victorian Ecclesiastical Stained Glass from St Stephen’s church in St Margarets, Twickenham, which was sadly recently smashed.

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The first step is to carefully remove the damaged section from the window.

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And to carefully slide the lead light out of its’ stone glazing channel

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With the bottom section removed and securely boarded up we can return to our Wimbledon shop to start work on the restoration.

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Here we are stripping the damaged section of its’ lead structure

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And then the next step is to lay out the glass

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Margaret our in house artist has begun the careful and painstaking process of painting the new sections.

For more examples of our Ecclesiastical work, please visit our stained glass portfolio.  From a design point of view we can do almost anything, from a traditional Victorian painted window, to creating a stained glass version of a Margaret Tarrant illustration of Peter Pan for a new children’s memorial garden at The West Middlesex Crematorium,  or taking the winning children’s design for a stained glass window in the new building at St. Barnabus Church, Southfields.

Our projects in ecclesiastical stained glass are often wonderful projects for us to be involved in, working closely with the Church through the whole process of design, painting and construction.

That’s it for today but later in the week we will be writing about our latest project for Hampton Court Palace, so be sure to check back!

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