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We offer daily services and a creative programme of talks, events and concerts. We seek to be a welcoming space for people to reflect, create and debate.
Come and celebrate the hope and light that Christmas brings each winter
St James’s hosts inclusive services and a cultural programme. We seek to be a welcoming space for people to reflect, create and debate.
St James’s is a place to explore, reflect, pray, and support all who are in need. We are a Church of England parish in the Anglican Communion. This is a place for everyone who’s wondering about life’s big questions and striving for a better world.
We host a year-round creative programme encompassing music, visual art and spoken word, drawing on St James’s rich cultural history including artists, writers and musicians Mary Beale, Mary Delany, William Blake, Ottobah Cugoano and Leopold Stokowski.
We try to put our faith into action by educating ourselves and speaking out on issues of injustice, especially concerning refugees, asylum, earth and racial justice, and LGBTQ+ issues.
We aspire to be a home where everyone can belong. We’re known locally and globally for our unique history and beauty, as well as faith in action, creativity and the arts, and a commitment to social and environmental justice.
We strive to be a Eucharist-centred, diverse and inclusive Christian community promoting life in abundance, wellbeing and dignity for all.
St James’s Piccadilly has been at the heart of its community since 1684. We invite you to play your part in securing this historic place for generations to come.
It costs us £3,500 per day to enable us to keep our doors open to all who need us
Your donation will help us restore our garden in Piccadilly as part of The Wren Project, making it possible for us to welcome over 300,000 people from all faiths and walks of life seeking tranquillity and inspiration each year.
St James's Church 197 Piccadilly London W1J 9LL
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St James’s is a welcoming and inclusive Church of England church in the heart of London. It strives to be a place of imagination, courage and hope, together with all faiths and none. It is a place where everyone can reflect, belong, create, and debate. Join us for daily services and a varied a cultural programme.
St James’s create a weekly congregational email newsletter and a monthly What’s on about our Music, Arts & Ideas.
Weekdays at 8.30am
Morning Prayer is said in the side chapel each weekday at 8.30am, lasting 30 minutes.
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Thur and Fri at 12noon
A chance to gather, share some silence, share some reflections.
Fri 6 Dec 1.10pm
Jack Myles, Miguel Zoco Sesma and tbc (tenor trombones), Cameron Bahmaie (bass trombone). The Funny Bones are a trombone quartet formed at the Royal Academy of Music, bonded over their mutual love of chamber music and the way it can be performed so uniquely through the trombone.
A space for prayer, readings and silence through Advent on Zoom
Sat 7 Dec 1.10pm
Joyful popular carols for everyone. Sing along with St James’s Music Scholars and brass players.
Saturday 7 December 7.30pm
For one night only, come and join billion-streaming pianist and composer Helen Jane Long performing live with The London String Players.
Sundays at 11am
Our main weekly gathering, with music and a warm welcome.
Sun 8 Dec 3pm
A reflective service of music and readings for all who find this time of year difficult.
Double the difference you can make this Christmas. Between 3 December and 10 December
Building on the success of our presence at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show, we are fundraising for a new, artist-designed, purpose-built facility for our drop-in ‘Caravan’ counselling service which offers 5,000 hours of free counselling each year to all-comers.
Each week, a member of the congregation, community or clergy writes on a contemporary topic that resonates with the mission and values of St James’s.
Verger Tomas Hickman reflects on the challenges and innovations of integrating technology at St James, from livestreaming services and utilising hearing loops to implementing creative audiovisual solutions, all aimed at fostering inclusivity and accessibility for both local and global congregations.
St James’s hosts inclusive services and a creative programme. We seek to be a welcoming space for people to reflect, create and debate.
St James’s strives to advocate for earth justice and to develop deeper connections with nature. Rooted in loving the world and all its inhabitants (human and other-than-human), the community seeks to act from a place of environmental interconnectedness in services, events, and activism.
This is a church that yearns for liberation, in solidarity with people experiencing homelessness, living on low incomes, going through the asylum system, and living with fragile mental or physical health.
‘St James’s is not just a building, it’s an idea and an invitation. The idea is that creativity is in itself a language of the human spirit.’ The Revd Lucy Winkett
