Domestic glass has a long history which has travelled through

many styles. Pre-Victorian house glass tended to be straight,

square or diamond quarry windows. In larger properties, the

prominent windows often bore 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 from nature, combined perhaps with a few lines from

a favourite poem.