St. Marks Church

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St. Mark’s Church

St. Mark’s Church is a Grade II listed building in Stoney Stanton Road, adjacent to Swanswell Park. It was built in the Gothic Revival style in 1868 by architects Paull and Robinson. 

The building ceased to be a Church in 1972 and between 1973 and 2006 was used as the Outpatients Department of Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital, when the hospital was relocated to Walsgrave as part of the University Hospital.
The buiding is owned by Coventry Diocese.

The most notable feature of the building is a large mural on what was originally the east window of the Church. The window was bricked up following Wartime bomb damage and in 1962/63 the Church commissioned German émigré artist
Hans Feibusch to paint a large mural, entitled Ascension.

Feibusch was a famous Jewish artist and was the last surviving artist who was included on Geobal’s infamous list of “degenerate artists”. He emigrated to Britain and painted murals in Churches and Civic buildings around the
country. He died in 1998 at the age of 99. 

Feibusch’s work is now recognised as being of national importance. In 2011 the Coventry Society noted that the listing particulars for the building did not include the mural. We therefore put in a formal request to English
Heritage to amend the listing to include the mural and revise other details of the listing. This was approved by the Secretary of State for Culture, Leisure and Sport in January 2013.

In September 2017 the building re-opened as a City Centre Resource Church. We are delighted that the future of this building is now secure and we look forward to the restoration of the mural.

As a result of the re-use and restoration of this building, we have moved this page from “Buildings at Risk” to “Quality Buildings”.

Download a Coventry Society information leaflet about the Feibusch mural
here…