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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
Sunday 21 April 6pm BST (10am PDT)
Indigenous sciences of sustainability: ancient native food systems and their lessons for the future
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 cultural 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 door open to all who need us
We know that spiritual sustenance comes in many forms: we hope you enjoy this one. £12 from the sale of each bottle will go directly to St James’s, Charity No. 1133048
St James's Church 197 Piccadilly London W1J 9LL
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Our vision to restore and rejuvenate Christopher Wren’s magnificent Grade I Listed church to accommodate and amplify our environmental activity and social outreach work.
St James’s, rooted in its Anglican heritage, has been for decades a place to celebrate and explore all that it is to be human, taking mind, body and soul seriously in the middle of a city that can feel lonely for many.
We invite you today to play your part not only in securing this historic place for generations to come, but by ensuring that a unique place dedicated to the tolerant, open-hearted practice of religion fulfils its purpose like never before.
Every penny counts and we recognise that not everyone will be able to make large donations so we encourage you to give whatever you can, however small or large.
St James’s history has been shaped by people that have imagined the world to be different and worked to make it so. If you can consider a major gift your name will be added to a specially commissioned acknowledgment, aligning your contribution to those across the centuries who have helped build who we are today.
The Gillray Gift — £10,000
The Gibbons Gift — £25,000
The Beale Gift — £50,000
The Blake Gift — £75,000
The Cugoano Gift — £100,000
The Wren Gift — £150,000 or more.
For more information or to discuss a major gift, please contact Brian Willetts – Director of Development, development@sjp.org.uk or call 020 7734 4511
The Wren Project is a scheme to restore and rejuvenate the historic Sir Christopher Wren church of St James’s, here at the heart of the community since 1684.
Led by our architect Ptolemy Dean, the church building will be carefully restored with a new organ built for the incomparable Grinling Gibbons organ case.
New walkways, a restored courtyard and re-landscaped gardens will provide publicly accessible historic and beautiful spaces to enjoy and new business partnerships will provide social enterprise hospitality.
A new arch will connect Piccadilly and Jermyn Street and new public access from the east is planned from Church Place.
You can find much more detail in The Wren Project Brochure.
St James’s has received initial support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund for The Wren Project. This development funding will help us progress our plans in order to apply for a full National Lottery grant at a later date.
The Wren Project will make it possible for St James’s to accommodate and amplify our environmental activity and social outreach work with people experiencing homelessness, refugees and asylum-seekers and those persecuted because of their sexuality or identity.
To do this, we are proposing a range of sensitive alterations to improve the accessibility of the Church as well as a programme of essential conservation work. Across the wider site we are opening up new pedestrian routes to Jermyn Street and Church Place, improving the landscape design and site wide accessibility as well as improving our environmental performance.
The Jermyn Street Building and Church Hall will be altered and extended to make them more usable. To support our financial resilience, we are proposing an exciting but modest new structure in the Green Church Yard.
Thank you to everyone who attended our public exhibition and webinar in June 2022. We are now analysing the feedback received during this consultation and will be shortly be submitting a planning application to the City of Westminster and the Diocesan Advisory Committee for the Care of Churches. You can view the material that was shown at our consultation by clicking the button.
