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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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Award-winning landscape architect Robert Myers will create a pioneering vision of change in our show garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024, sponsored by grant-making charity Project Giving Back.
Robert Myers MA (Cantab), PGDipLA, CMLI, MSGD, is a chartered landscape architect who collaborates with space and light to create elegant and timeless outdoor spaces, inspired by the characteristics of materials and plants, of history and place. His work explores the relationship between the formal and informal and draws inspiration from both the architectural and natural world.
Robert read geography at Cambridge, exploring and recognising the differences in cultures, political systems, economies, landscapes and environments worldwide. He qualified as a landscape architect at the University of Central England and immediately joined Elizabeth Banks Associates (EBA) in 1993, where he led the team that created the new Duke of York’s Square, Kings Road, Chelsea (described by architect Richard Rogers as “the first successful square in London designed for public use”), which was followed by further work at Cavalry Square and The Saatchi Gallery. Robert has long-established connections to Cambridge and the University and has drawn up plans for many of the Colleges, including a 50-year landscape strategy for the iconic landscape of The Backs in the centre of the city. Having completed significant works across London and Cambridge, he particularly enjoys working in complex historic landscapes, roof gardens, urban squares and pocket parks. His award-winning practice undertakes commissions from private individuals, rural estates, developers, and institutions such as cathedrals, universities, and schools. He is listed in Country Life’s Top 100 and has won many awards, including six gold medals at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and the Society of Garden Designers’ Grand Award 2017 for the Magic Garden at Hampton Court Palace.
He particularly enjoys the rigour of working in culturally sensitive sites and has drawn up masterplans for Exeter Cathedral, Hereford Cathedral, St. Mary’s Islington and Southwark Cathedral, SE1 as well as The Backs and Trinity College in Cambridge.
Previous RHS Chelsea gardens 2003: The Sir Hans Sloane Garden for The Cadogan Estate – Small Garden – Gold medal 2006: The Costiera dei Fiori Garden for the Regione Campania, Italy – Small Garden – Gold medal 2007: The Fortnum & Mason Garden – Show Garden – Gold medal 2008: A Cadogan Garden for The Cadogan Estate – Show Garden – Gold medal 2009: The Cancer Research UK Garden – Show Garden – Silver-gilt medal 2010: The Cancer Research UK Garden – Show Garden: Gold medal 2011: The Cancer Research UK Garden – Show Garden: Silver-gilt medal 2013: The Brewin Dolphin Garden – Show Garden – Gold medal 2021: The Florence Nightingale Garden for The Burdett Trust – Show Garden – Silver medal
Find out more about Robert Myers
Find out more about our garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show
An established firm favourite in the St James’s calendar, this year’s Christmas Gala Concert lived up to its reputation as a hallmark event to launch the Christmas season.
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Here are just some of the people who came to say hello – you might spot some familiar faces.
Sonia Lee reflects on her enriching experience as an ambassador for St James’s Piccadilly Garden at the Chelsea Flower Show, highlighting the garden’s Gold Award, the enthusiastic public reception.
Find out about the special, handmade birdhouse featured in St James’s RHS Chelsea garden this year, as seen on the BBC.
The Sixteen and St James’s Piccadilly reveal new composition by Will Todd in celebration of Chelsea Flower Show.
Lucy Winkett reflects on the power of birdsong to bring hope, even in the middle of a city.
Discover how St James’s show garden ‘Imagine the World to be Different’ has been created with this short film by our sponsor Project Giving Back.
D.R. Harris & Co has developed an exclusive new fragrance to celebrate St James’s participation in RHS Chelsea Flower Show to raise funds for The Wren Project.
Luke has created this special edition print for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show to raise funds for The Wren Project.
Lucy reflects on Maytime traditions, the politics of being English and the origins of the Spring Show in west London that has become RHS Chelsea
From the initial ground-breaking to the final flourish of blossoms, see our RHS garden come to life with this timelapse of the installation on the main avenue at RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
Online coverage of the Imagine the World to be Different garden designed by Robert Myers for St James’s and sponsored by Project Giving Back.
Robert Myers, St James’s Chelsea Show Garden designer, explains how prioritising sustainability throughout the projects lifecycle sets a new standard for ecologically-driven practices.
Landscape architect for St James’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show Garden 2024, Robert Myers, talks about the importance of trees in our show garden design.
After the war of 1939–45 Viscount Southwood provided money for the ‘green’ churchyard to be made into a garden of remembrance ‘to commemorate the courage and fortitude of the people of London’.
