The company was found in 1855 by John Clayton (1827-1913) and Alfred Bell (1832-95) and continued making stained glass until 1993.
 
Clayton and Bell’s designs were initially manufactured by Heaton and Butler, with whom they shared a studio between 1859 and 1862. They employed Robert Turnill Bayne, a Pre-Raphaelite artist, as a designer. In 1862, when Baynes joined Heaton, and Butler, and Clayton and Bell started to manufacturer their own glass.
 

Stained glass maker Thomas Denny trained at the Edinburgh College of Art and has had many commissions both as painter and as a designer of stained glass. He now lives in Gloucestershire and has work in Gloucester Cathedral, Hereford Cathedral, and St. Margaret’s Church, Millington in East Yorkshire amongst others. The windows here are in St. Catherine & St. John Chapel at Tewkesbury Abbey (2002).
 
 
 

 
 
East window at Old Arley by Burlison & Grylls. In the lower left panel St. Wilfred holds a model of this church.
 
 

 
 
 
Faith, Hope, and Charity by Heaton, Butler & Baynes (1896). Staverton.