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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
Saturday 17 January 12.30pm
A special collaboration between two of London’s finest jazz musicians, Harry Christelis and Maria Chiara Argirò.
Wednesday 4 – 7 February 7.30pm
Baroque and roll meets gospel and soul in a funny, heart breaking and ultimately joyous new musical about two musical icons.
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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Ayla reflects on shared worship and deepening bonds between St James’s and St. Bart’s New York, celebrating Epiphany, mutual prayer, and Anglican communities united in hope and love across the ocean.
In these days between the celebration of Epiphany and the Baptism of Christ, I’m in New York with St James’s Piccadilly’s partner church, St Bart’s. On Sunday, The Revd Meredith Ward, Associate Rector at St Bart’s, will be joining us at St James’s to preach. On Sunday 4 January, for the Feast of the Epiphany, I returned to the pulpit in New York and as I offered the congregation warm greetings and prayers from London, I remembered the visit that St James’s made to New York – travellers from the east, though more than three of us, and perhaps not with the title of Wise Men (!) – in April 2025.
There have now been many opportunities – with more to come – for these two congregations to get to know one another across the Atlantic, and with each connection and conversation, I experience deeper resonances and stronger bonds between these Anglican inclusive communities as beacons of hope and love in the heart of New York and London. Amidst the buzzing rush (and a brief flurry of snow) in the streets of Manhattan, St Bart’s is an oasis: it is a sanctuary of peace and rest for weary souls in the seemingly relentless crises of a fragmented and volatile world. In Christ, in the Epiphany visit of the Magi and in the unity of heaven and earth in the Son of God’s baptism, we find true liberation – holy freedom – in God’s mercy when we need it most, in our two cities and beyond.
Across the week, I’ve been worshipping with our New York friends, as well as preaching, speaking in the Sunday Forum series about starlight in art, and building relationships with parish staff and congregation through the values we share in common at St James’s.
You can watch the service for the Feast of the Epiphany here.
The Sunday Forum talk about starlight and the Magi is here.
And St Bart’s Thursday service, Imagine Worship, will be online on Thursday as well, and we’ll be anticipating the Feast of the Baptism of Christ.
In the Spirit of mutual prayer that enfolds us and unites us all, on the corner of Park Avenue and 50th Street, St Bart’s holds St James’s in its heart, and across borders and a vast ocean, we abide in God’s hope together.
