Appeal for stained glass pictures

Visitation (1924), an example of the work of Harry Clarke, courtesy of the Church of Saints Peter and Paul, in Balbriggan, Co. Dublin.

A writer is appealing for information about windows in a Penarth church made by acclaimed Irish stained glass artist Harry Clarke.

Two of Clarke's windows were installed in All Saints Church in the late 1920s or early 1930s. They were destroyed by a wartime Nazi bomb raid in 1943.

Lucy Costigan is hoping that someone may have a photo of the church interior from the 1930s showing the windows.

Clarke, who lived from 1889 to 1931, was also a celebrated book illustrator.

The two windows he created for All Saints Church, Penarth depicted the aged Simeon holding the Infant Christ, and St Michael and the Giving of the Laws to Moses with St Gabriel and the Annunciation.

Lucy Costigan and Michael Cullen are currently writing a book and creating a website for the Irish Heritage Council about Clarke's work.

He produced over 170 stained glass windows during his short career that are remarkable in terms of their jewel-like colours and beautiful, expressive figures.

Michael Cullen is currently photographing Clarke's windows in churches, art galleries, private collections and commercial venues in Ireland, England, the US, and Australia.

So far they have been unable to trace any photos of the windows that were created for All Saints Church in Penarth.

If anyone does have any photos of the interior of All Saints in the 1930s and early 1940s then Lucy and Michael would be delighted to hear from you.

Fore more information visit Lucy Costigan's website