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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 Triumph of Delights was a month long festival, led by the Eco Team, in the lead up to COP26 in Glasgow during October 2021.
Who We Are
Read more about the Eco Team on About Earth Justice
What We Do
A Triumph of Delights was a month long festival, led by the Eco Team, in the lead up to COP26 in Glasgow during October 2021
Getting Involved
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‘A Triumph of Delights’ is how 17th century mystic Thomas Traherne described planet earth. But the climate and biodiversity crises are threatening planetary equilibrium, and the very existence of humanity.
The Warming Stripes graphic designed by climate scientist Ed Hawkins provides a stark warning. It shows global average temperatures from 1850 to 2020 – the redder the colours, the higher the temperature.
For this reason our Eco Team wanted to provide a variety of spaces to gather in solidarity, and to celebrate the beauty and fragility of our common home with a month long festival.
Style your Stripes Gala Event in partnership with Atelier Tammam
This gala launched the Tammam climate stripes couture collection and raised funds for the church’s organ restoration fund and climate charities. We had guest appearances by singer-songwriter Emeli Sande accompanied by pianist Yoana Karemova. A recital by acclaimed organist Anna Lapwood and a talk by Prof Ed Hawkins, University of Reading, creator of the Climate Stripes graphic.
A Triumph of Delights Festival
An afternoon festival packed with music, science, art and conversation followed by all-night vigil. Activities included an installation by artist in residence Esmeralda Valencia Lindstrom, including Video installation in the church and Micro-tours of the courtyard and garden using wearable magnifying glasses. Original artwork sale by our very own Finna Ayers, Fiona Notman and Sara Mark which raised £834 for the Solidarity Fund. A drop-in workshop on the creation of Britain’s first geological map by William Smith. In conversation with teenage naturalist, blogger and London National Park City Champion and Jazz settings of Thomas Traherne’s poetry, including work by Alison Beck.
Our Triumph of Delights festival celebrating planet earth ran throughout October 2021 in the run-up to COP26. Sustainable fashion gala #styleyourstripes in collaboration with Atelier Tammam was a real highlight. Tammam’s 2021 collection is based on the warming stripes graphic devised by Prof Ed Hawkins of Reading University, which demonstrates global temperature increase over the past 150 years. We were delighted to welcome organist Anna Lapwood and singer/songwriter Emeli Sande to this special event, as well as Lucy Tammam and Ed Hawkins.
Joan Ishibashi, a member of our eco team shows off a #styleyourstripes scarf on the red-and-blue carpet.
Emeli Sandé , Anna Lapwood and Ed Hawkins
Emeli Sandé performing at #ShowYorStripes Fundraising Gala
All-night vigil in St James’s courtyard
Multi-faith blessing for those participating in Camino to COP26
Ọlá and the Amalgam
Come and join our online Ecozoic Book Group for what promises to be a season of lively ecumenical discussions! We will be exploring in more depth some of the themes raised by the ‘CHANGING OUR MINDS’ series of conversations with academics, theologians and indigenous thinkers from Northern America and Australia.
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In this second series of online conversations exploring ways into an Ecozoic future, four wise and respected Australian elders share their experience, commitments and vision, inviting us to connect to Country.
As we head into an uncertain future, one thing we do know is that Europe is the fastest-warming continent, with temperatures rising at roughly twice the global average.
Join us for a four-part series of online conversations with indigenous thinkers, and contemporary theologians who are passionate about Earth Justice, to explore how we might go about CHANGING OUR MINDS.
