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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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A season inspired by William Blake 12 Nov – 10 Dec 2022
Blake-inspired songs and words from acclaimed world music artist
Fri 18 Nov 7pm-9:15pm
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Celebrated jazz pianist and composer performs one of his best-loved works
Thurs 24 Nov 8-9.30pm
A fun two-hour workshop with Dr Kerry Ryan. Using Blake’s poems and paintings to fire imaginations and inspire new writing.
Sat 10 Dec 11am-1pm
St James’s Piccadilly is delighted to announce a new season, Visions & Voices Festival: Echoes of William Blake to coincide with the anniversary of William Blake’s baptism in the Grade I listed church.
The season’s events are programmed in collaboration with The Blake Society.
Once thought of as a lunatic, Blake is now revered as one of the greatest creators of iconic images and writing in British cultural history; a visionary, who has inspired figures from Bob Dylan and Jim Morrison to Aldous Huxley, David Bowie and Philip Pullman.
During the month leading up to the anniversary of Blake’s baptism on 11 December, four concerts will celebrate Blake’s profound influence on arts and culture. Performers will include English jazz pianist Mike Westbrook, singer songwriter Susheela Raman, literature expert Professor Jason Whittaker and more.
Fri 18 Nov 7-9.15pm Susheela Raman, Jason Whittaker & Sam Mills plus Charles Hayward – I give you the end of a golden string: William Blake in Songs & Words
Thurs 24 Nov 8-9.30pm Mike & Kate Westbrook with Phil Minton – The Westbrook Blake
Sat 10 Dec 11am-1pm Dr Kerry Ryan leads a writing workshop inspired by William Blake
Blake Now is a film about the radical and visionary poet William Blake, his city of London and his city of the imagination. Blake was baptised at St James’s Church, Piccadilly in 1757 and lived most of his life in nearby Soho. Blake’s poem London is still as shocking and visceral as ever. First published in Songs of Innocence and Experience over 200 years ago, Blake’s anger and outrage infuses every word and every image. Having lived in the capital most of his life, and at a time of great political and social upheaval, his poem is a damning portrayal of eighteenth century London.
St James’s Church, in partnership with the Poetry Society, invited five contemporary poets – Sophie Herxheimer, Joseph Coelho, Ankita Saxena, Ruth Awolola and Natalie Linh Bolderston – to reflect on Blake and his relevance now.
