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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.
Sunday 6 April 6.30pm St Pancras Church
Join the music scholars of St James’s, Piccadilly as they celebrate women composers throughout the ages.
Wednesday 16 April 6:30pm
In this special collaboration for Holy Week, St James’s Piccadilly brings together the music of composer Rachel Chaplin and spoken word presented by The Revd Lucy Winkett.
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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The Music Scholars programme at St James’s started in the Autumn of 2021. Their musical talents and creativity will enhance the music of our services until the end of July 2022.
‘Hi, my name is Lily, and I am excited to say that I am one of the singing scholars at St James’s for the next year! I am currently in my final year of studying an undergraduate degree in music at King’s College London. Singing is my first study, but I also really enjoy studying musicology.
I have been playing and learning music since I was four (I was lucky that both my parents happen to be music teachers!), and took lessons in singing, piano, violin, and flute. I enjoyed all this, but it was only when I turned fifteen and was introduced to choral and church music through the Royal School of Church Music that I found the type of music which really spoke to me.
Since then, I joined the RSCM’s Millennium Youth Choir which gave me the opportunity to sing evensong in several cathedrals around the country. I am now a choral scholar at King’s College London, and also am directing a student choir at St Mary le Strand this year. I hope that directing and singing choral music will be a part of my career, so I am using the next few years to further my skills. Next year, I hope to take up a cathedral choral scholarship position.
Aside from that, I also enjoy getting involved with arts administration and music education. I manage a children’s choir called Harmonies of Hope, a choir funded by BBC Children in Need for children who are either awaiting or have received an organ transplant. They recently featured as part of NHS Blood and Transplant’s organ donation week campaign, and it was so wonderful seeing all of that come into fruition.
I’m greatly looking forward to singing, but also to getting involved in the community at St. James’s over the course of this year!’
