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Making a stained glass belongs to the artistic works which we have not paid much attention to in such fields of literature as esthetics, theory and history of the art. In the context of fashion, the spin of the stained glass art will be a valuable complement to the whole picture of Polish people’s private lives in XIXth century. I have been interested in a stained glass for many years. The subject of the conference contributed to the analysis of the stained glass in Poland in XIXth century. Field researches caused precursory assessment of the stained glass forms which are present in a secular architecture except for the objects of public utility. At the beginning of my researches I can attest that it is a fashion for a stained glass with its derivative forms in Poland in XIXth century. At the beginning of the paper I will present the situation of the stained glass forms in the context of fashion for adornment and Art Nouveau. I will also present the objects connected with the stained glass so the entrance area of residential buildings i.e. glazings of doors, upper parts of doors or windows and glazings of staircases which have hitherto been put in the shade in the researches. Thereafter I will go on to the stained glass which functions as the glazing of porches. They were so fashionable in palaces as well as bourgeois houses and agrestic buildings in the XIXth century.