Jerzy Faczyński

• Born 1917-04-25 · Died 1994-04-22

At his birth, Yenakiieve was within the Russian Empire (in present-day Ukraine), but became part of Poland after World War I. Jerzy graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, Poland. In the late 1930s, he designed polychromes for a church in Kraków, held exhibitions of his work and graduated from Warsaw Polytechnic in architecture. During the World War II, he served in the Polish Air Force on the Hungarian front, where he was captured. He was interred, escaped and rejoined the Polish Air Force. After the fall of France, he moved to the United Kingdom as a refugee. After the war, he lectured in drawing in at the Polish School of Architecture, worked at the Hammersmith School of Art, and went on to work for the architectural firm of Weightman and Bullen. He designed more than fifty Catholic churches while working for Weightman and Bullen and also designed stained glass windows for many other churches.