Domestic glass has a long history that has travelled through many
styles. Pre-Victorian house glass tended to be straight, square or
diamond quarry windows. In larger properties, the prominent
windows might have been painted depictions of either family
emblems, or family members’ history and trade.

Windows became more florid and intricate in Victorian households,
both in design and through the introduction of painted and stained,
kiln-fired panels - commonly depicting scenes of nature, combined
perhaps with a few lines of a favourite poem.