Harry Clarke in the Hundred Acre Wood – the cloistered opulence of Ashdown Park

20 November 2025, The Tablet

Harry Clarke’s stained-glass windows light up the Ashdown Park Hotel’s mezzanine

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Tablet features – cloistered opulence

I’ve just walked through its rolling gardens and now I’m standing in front of a masterpiece of one of Ireland’s most renowned twentieth-century stained-glass artists, Harry Clarke, who took his inspiration for this stunning set of windows from a journey he made to Chartres after graduating from the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art in 1914.

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