Conservation & Heritage Issue 50 Winter 2025/Spring 2026 - Flipbook - Page 70
Above, Large doors in a screen with manifestation
Fr ameless glass doors for
your heritage building
Deceptively simple, frameless glass doors offer a combination of transparency, minimalism
and structural performance. Used internally, they allow light to circulate within your
building: used externally they are less foreboding than traditional wooden doors allowing
visitors to see inside your building as well as adding natural light to your entrance.
Ion’s glass doors aren’t limited to standard rectangles!
We asked Peter Hazeldean, MD of structural glass specialists
Ion Glass to share his insights into frameless glass doors in
heritage buildings and why they work so well.
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Frameless Glass Entrance Doors
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More and more properties are recognising that a
traditional wooden door can be off-putting for visitors.
Modernising your entrance with glass doors is more
welcoming and doesn’t mean losing the wooden doors
altogether – they can either be fixed permanently open,
or the new glass entrance doors can be positioned at the
rear of the porch so you have the option to close the
wooden doors.
Ion Glass offer bespoke glass door panels shaped
to fit arches, or non-standard openings, a flexibility
that makes our doors ideal to complement historic
architecture, heritage and listed properties.
At St Mary’s Church, East Molesey for instance, Ion
designed and manufactured the fully frameless glass
doors to fit perfectly in the space, despite the unusual
stonework. But it’s not just about doors for churches…
for example, we worked with the owners of an unusual
heritage home in Sussex to create a stunning entrance
with frameless glass doors set into a pointed arch.”
Glass doors offer full security and we can link them to
your alarm system if required.”
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