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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.
We are delighted to announce that from 6 Jan until early Apr 2025, work will take place to reinstate the church’s South Door onto Jermyn Street, part of Sir Christopher Wren’s original design.
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 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.
The work of St James’s, it costs us £5,000 per day to enable us to keep our doors open to all who need us.
New walkways, a restored courtyard and re-landscaped gardens will provide fully accessible, beautiful spaces for everyone to enjoy as well as improving our environmental performance.
St James's Church 197 Piccadilly London W1J 9LL
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29th April, 2025, 6.15pm
ROYAL GALA DINNER NEW YORK
hosted by His Royal Highness The Prince Edward The Duke of Edinburgh KG KT GCVO
and The Revd Lucy Winkett Rector of St James’s Church, Piccadilly, London
Presented by Adjoa Andoh
Performance by Genesis Sixteen
St Bartholomew’s Church, Park Avenue
Dress Code: Black tie or National Dress. Decorations to be worn.
Royal Gala Host Committee Chair: Charles Myers Christiane Amanpour CBE Adjoa Andoh Sir Philip Bobbitt Molly & David Borthwick Helena Bonham Carter CBE Brian Cox Tom Ford Sir Stephen Fry Dr Tai-Heng Cheng Christina Lyon Sir Cameron Macintosh
You will be directed to our partner church, St. Bart’s in New York to process payment in US dollars.
Imagine the World to Be Different: Join us in building a better future with your support of The Wren Project
92 years before the Declaration of Independence, St James’s Piccadilly was built in the heart of London. A church of international significance, Sir Christopher Wren’s masterpiece has provided architectural inspiration for many UK and US buildings.
As the historic church of artists, poets, scientists and activists: William Blake, G F Handel, Isaac Newton, Mary Beale and the abolitionist Ottobah Cugoano, St James’s has been, and continues to be, a home for visionaries and creatives who imagine the world to be different and work to make it so. Today, almost 350 years later, St James’s is still a creative and innovative voice in society.
The Wren Project is not only the £20m restoration and rejuvenation of St James’s. It embodies in its programmes the clear-sighted vision of a historic community looking to the future
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In a polarised world, the Wren Project’s rejuvenation of the light and peaceful building manifests a vision of inclusive community, respecting all regardless of sexuality, ethnicity, ability or gender. A society that encourages independent thought, creative action, rooted in reciprocity and care of the earth, valuing people of all faiths and none.
In a world crying out for outstanding leaders, the Wren Project’s Changemaker Programme will invest in diverse young people on an 18-month leadership programme in Civil Society, Environment, Business, the Arts and Music.
The Wren Project catalyses social outreach programmes that work towards a society in which homelessness ceases to be an inevitability, incarceration and re-offending rates are reduced and individual lives are transformed, one compassionate conversation at a time.
We, the people of St James’s, believe in the Wren Project because it is bigger than us. It speaks to a higher purpose, in a generation when such purpose has never been more needed.
Be part of imagining the world to be different, and join us to make it so.
“There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into an abyss of injustice where they experience the bleakness of corroding despair. I hope, sirs, you can understand our legitimate and unavoidable impatience”.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ April 16, 1963
For more information contact: Brian Willetts, Director of Development – development@sjp.org.uk American Friends of St James’s 501c3. President: Sir Philip Bobbitt. Chair: Tai-Heng Cheng. St James’s Church Piccadilly Registered Charity Number 1133048
