Yes, that is indeed Saunders Lewis, top left, depicted as an evangelist, in the company of poets, R.S. Thomas and David Lewis and the composer William Mathias. This bold interpretation (R.S. Thomas was alive at the time) concerned the church authorities so this set were moved to the underground columbarium and David John, the wood carver, was asked to do a second set. This time he portrayed composer, Alan Hoddinott (also alive) and poets, Vernon Watkins, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Wilfrid Owen.

I am very pleased that an article of mine that was published years ago has a new lease of life as the church of All Hallows in Miskin, south Glamorgan, approaches its 30th anniversary in May. It is beautifully re-presented, with a new set of photographs, on the website of the archdiocese.

When I first visited the church it was brand new, in 1996. I was filming for a tv documentary. The church design and the works of art in the church were excellent but there didn’t seem to be a record of who the people behind these were.

I was intrigued to find that the faces carved on the front of the lectern, which one might expect to represent the evangelists, were (if I wasn’t mistaken) the faces of Welsh poets. How fascinating.

I am always interested in the choices made by artists and architects so I set out to discover who these people were – because there is always a a story worth hearing. I found them and interviewed them. It was a wonderful experience. I arranged for a photographer to take pictures of everything and David John, who did the many wood carvings, kindly met me in the church so he could walk me round himself. I wrote up the results of my research as a substantial article which was published in a magazine in 2009.

At an event in the Irish Consulate in Cardiff, June Ryan of Henstaff Conferencing Centre, near Miskin, told me she remembered that I had mentioned knowing something about the art works and asked if I could find the information in time for the anniversary. I did find it, and the current parish priest has reproduced it in a new format for the website of the archdiocese with new, and first-rate, photographs.

I have captured the piece by screenshot, inexpertly.