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We offer daily services and a cultural programme of talks, events and concerts. We seek to be a welcoming space for people to reflect, create and debate
The Sunday Forum is an open online group, that runs parallel to the coffee after the service, from 12.30pm to 1pm on a Sunday, open to all.
Sunday 19 July 3pm-4.30pm
Hymns and Pimm’s in the Garden. Join St James’s Music Scholars past and present as they lead you through your favourite hymns, whilst enjoying a glass or two of Pimms.
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.
We host a year-round creative programme encompassing music, visual art and spoken word.
We offer hospitality to people going through homelessness and speak out on issues of injustice, especially concerning refugees, asylum, racial justice, and LGBTQ+ issues.
St James’s strives to advocate for earth justice and to develop deeper connections with nature.
We aim to be a place where you can belong. We have a unique history, and the beauty of our building is widely known. Our community commits to faith in action: social and environmental justice; creativity. and the arts
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 £5,000 each day to keep the doors of St James’s open to all who already need us.
A reimagined St James’s realised. A redesigned garden, courtyard and new building capacity—all fully accessible— will provide beautiful spaces for all as well as improving our environmental performance.
Whether shooting a blockbuster TV series or creating a unique corporate event, every hire at St James’s helps our works within the community.
St James's Church 197 Piccadilly London W1J 9LL
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‘Having been away from organised religion for about 50 years, I originally came through the doors of St James’s for a talk on climate change, having graduated in environmental and biological sciences.
The church is not what I remember as a child and adolescent. It is approachable. St James’s is about the people, the community, the environment and the global paradoxes in this world of progress while retaining Jesus’s ministry of ‘imagining the world to be different and working to make it so’.
I retired from TfL after nearly 30 years, being the first woman of colour in operational train work on the Underground. My biggest challenge initially at SJP was time. The tag line for Tube staff is ‘every second counts’, for a reliable, safe journey. Christianity, however, requires patience in reading Scriptures, understanding and following rituals and seeing humanity and all creation as sacred.
The Wren Project and its vision has always been present at St James’s to me. It is like the aspiration of the Church 2000 years past built on love, faith and hope.’
