Maker/Retailer Biography

Heaton, Butler & Bayne

Dates: Founded 1855

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Stained glass manufacturers and decorators in Garrick Street, Covent Garden. Founded by Clement Heaton (1824-82) and J. Butler (1830-1913) in 1855 and joined by R. T. Bayne in 1862, who became the principal glass painter. Heaton collaborated with C. L. Eastlake, painting a cabinet illustrated in Hints on Household Taste (1868), which was exhibited in Paris 1867, and probably made by the Art Furniture Co., also in Garrick Street. He provided designs for portieres for the Art Furniture Co., and probably decorated other furniture made by them. The firm supplied stained glass windows for  E. W. Godwin's Northampton Town Hall, and employed Lewis F. Day to help decorate Alfred Waterhouse's Eaton Hall in the 1870s. The company produced catalogues from 1862. At the London International Exhibition in 1871 it showed art tiles designed by Henry Holiday, and it was also represented at Philadelphia in 1876. Heaton's son Clement John succeeded his father in 1882, but left in 1885 after a dispute. He was involved with Mackmurdo's Century Guild before moving to Switzerland, where he set up a stained glass and enamels studio, moving later to America. In the twentieth century the firm was controlled principally by the Bayne family; the company archives were sold off in the 1970s.