This is the Vestery windows at St. Giles Church Gt. Maplestead Essex. Craftsman Glass Ltd. re leaded these windows and refurbushed the bars .This Church is located in the centre of the village and is notable for it's Norman west tower and apse, and it's two 17th Century monuments in the south transcept. The tower is unbuttressed and it's parapet and battlements are probably 15th century. It was extensively repaired in brick on it's east and south faces after a lightning strike in the 17th Century. You can read the PCC comments on our "How Good Are We " section of this web site. Work Completed 18th May 2010

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Here is Paul Knight putting the finishing touches to the vestry window at Bramford Church near Ipswich suffolk. This window was completly re made by Craftsman glass limited. There was a lot of missing glass but we managed to get an exact match from our extensive stock . January 2010

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Copdock Church. This church will be familiar to many travellers, as it sits above the busy Copdock Mill interchange between the A12 and A14. Despite this, its pretty churchyard is a peaceful place, mainly because the A12 lies in such a deep cutting. This panel of Stained Glass depicting the death of Jacob was damaged during a break in at the church, the damage was extensive and required great skill and knowledge by artist Benjanin Finn who has cut and hand painted over 50% of the glass to exactly match the origional. Craftsman Glass Limited have re leaded the entire panel and fitted it back into the stonework on site.

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This is a window being removed at Gt. Wakering Church, Craftsman Glass has 13 windows to restore at this Church. Here you can see Paul removing the cement from around the edge of the leaded light. We are working with Builders Bakers Of Danbury who have extensive stonework repairs to undertake. January 2010

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This hand painted stained glass window was restored by Paul Knight over 15 years ago. The window was in a poor state of repair and Paul removed it from the stonework and cleaned and re-leaded the entire window, it took him over a month to restore.

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This was one of two stained glass windows painted by the artist Benjamin Finn. Benjamin has painted each small pane of glass before firing them at over 600 degrees in the kiln. This panel was then leaded together by Craftsman Glass.

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This was the second of a pair of panels painted by Benjamin Finn, these panels are made in two sections and are joined together when glazed into the frame.

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Major restoration was required on this church, Craftsman Glass worked with Sufflok Masonry Services to restore all the clearstory windows. This job was scaffolded inside and out the full length of the church.

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This was a big job ! Craftsman Glass replaced 5 large windows that had been removed over 8 years ago. The Church needed underpinning, and the windows were removed and stored in the tower. We used all the origional glass in the Traceries and made new leaded light windows on the main windows. The new glass used was polish restoration glass and pale pink antique cathedral in the borders.

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We re-leaded the stained glass tracerys at high level on the window in the picture. It was very high, and I remember it well because I spent a hot summers day up a ladder with shorts on, and burnt the back of my legs. Working on Churchs is a great activity in the summer months, but in the winter, well !

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We have worked at this Church many times over the years, it was one of the first Churchs Paul Knight worked on when he started in 1979. We re-leaded 2 windows here and carried out many repairs, our most recent visit was to replace broken diamonds in June 2009

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Aphamstone Church is on the Suffolk / Essex border. Craftsman Glass restored 5 windows here.

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The main east window on this church was in danger of falling out, it was the most beautiful hand painted stained glass. The stonework had moved and the lead had come away from the stone grove. We removed the window carried out repairs to damaged glass and made the whole window about 50mm bigger so it fitted back safely. As you can see Scott has taken a supervisory position with the cup of tea!

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These windows are just some of the windows we restored at Haughley. We carried out extensive restoration work on many of the windows at this church. This is a very interesting Church with so much history, well worth a visit. And of course the leaded lights are fantastic !

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This is a lovely country Church, Craftsman Glass has done major restoration work on the east window here, we removed the whole window and replaced it with clear antique diamonds with a ruby red waterglass border. We also completly restored an iron framed window here in antique glass. There is photos of the work we did here on our other gallery.

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We have repaired many windows at this Church, the last we worked here we restored two diamond windows in antique glass on the west gable end at high level.

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We have worked at Pentlow Church many times, the scaffolding in this photo was erected when the tower was hit by lightning. Some of the stonework was replaced at the top of the tower and Craftsman Glass Ltd. restored the tower windows at the same time.

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This stained glass was removed from the stonework,remade and re fitted. This type of work is like doing a giant jig saw puzzle, we dispose of the lead ,clean the glass and lay it out on a cutline, then proseed to put it all back together with new lead.

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Is this a rare photo of the hunchback, no it is Scott trying to negotiate the bells in the tower at Pentlow Church, the flash from the camera helped him a bit but it was pitch black in the bell tower, and It was a long way down !

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Craftsman Glass Ltd. Removed two large windows here, we re leaded them using all the existing glass, and fitted them back into the stonework.

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We worked with Stained Glass Artist benjamin Finn on this job, We re-leaded three windows here each one with hand painted stained glass . you can see what the Dean of Bocking thought of the finished job by visiting our " How Good Are We " Page.

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This tracery window is one of five we manufactured for Walton On Naze Church Essex.We cleaned and re leaded the glass and set it into the stonework on site. The larger pane has been made in seven sections and put together on site. The leaded lights are set into the stone with a soft pointing up mix.

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This is a large Gothic Window opening in the North wall of St. Nicholas Church Gt. Wakering Church in Essex. It is late 14th century. It has an 18th century timber window inserted, which has a mullion and two rere-arches to form two Lancet windows. Craftsman Glass Ltd. have re leaded all the leaded lights using all the origional glass. The whole window has been refurbished. We worked with Bakers Of Danbury on this, and as you can see the finished window was stunning.

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On this Church we removed all the opening casements and totaly restored them, we releaded the casement lights and fitted them back into the stonework. The main thing I remember about this church was the BATS, there was loads of them, and bat droppings everywere.

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