Adam Kossowski: Sgraffito murals of the Book of Revelation
Title: Sgraffito murals of the Book of Revelation
Artist: Adam Kossowski
Location: St Benet’s Chaplaincy, Queen Mary, University of London (interdenominational)
Date: 1964
Mural covering the walls of St Benet’s Chaplaincy, Queen Mary, University of London.
Adam Kossowski (1905–1986, Polish) was a Polish refugee who quickly made a career in public works of figurative art in Britain. His Catholic background brought him church commissions which he undertook with exceptional stylistic integrity and a sophisticated theological understanding.
Further Information
Medium: sgraffito mural
Permanent display
See Adam Kossowski’s murals on the Ecclesiart map here.
Other artworks in churches by Adam Kossowski: Tympanum, Saint Mary’s RC Parish Church, Leyland; Figure of Christ and Stations of the Cross mural, RC Church of Christ the King, Milnthorpe, Cumbria; ceramics, the Chapel of St Aloysius RC Church, Camden, London; baptistry ceramics, St Aidan’s, East Acton.