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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
Tuesday 1 September – end of October
Losing Identity explores the silent grief and resilience of women fleeing Ethiopia and Eritrea across the Mediterranean Sea in unsafe, overcrowded boats.
Monday 7 September 1.10pm
Anna Cooper (soprano) and Robert Nicholas (baritone) present Menotti’s opera, The Telephone, directed by Harrison Knights and musical directed by Michael Haslam (pianist).
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 aim to be a place where you can belong. We have a unique history, and the beauty of our building is widely known. Our community commits to faith in action: social and environmental justice; creativity. and the arts
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 £5,000 each day to keep the doors of St James’s open to all who already need us.
A reimagined St James’s realised. A redesigned garden, courtyard and new building capacity—all fully accessible— will provide beautiful spaces for all as well as improving our environmental performance.
Whether shooting a blockbuster TV series or creating a unique corporate event, every hire at St James’s helps our works within the community.
St James's Church 197 Piccadilly London W1J 9LL
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Apollonia van den Brand reflects on her journey to Baptism and Confirmation at the Easter Vigil in St Paul’s Cathedral, and what it meant to consciously choose and affirm her faith in Christ.
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On Sunday 21 June, as part of Refugee Week, members of our international community shared their reflections and experiences with the wider St James’s community. Uchenna contributed a beautiful poem called ‘Where I Belong’.
This Pride month, Stephen reflects on love that stays, even as memory slips away, and on how that love endures through silence, change, and time.
A new 5-year music collaboration with the historic church St James’s Piccadilly – designed by Sir Christopher Wren and consecrated in 1684 – supported by the Genesis Foundation.
Sam Davis, Director of the Cugoano Changemakers Programme, reflects on the launch of Changemaker Lens as a powerful evening where young artists’ work brought the programme’s purpose to life, centring storytelling, lived experience and emerging leadership from across the UK and beyond.
Susanna Avery-Quash shares her Address to over 500 artists at St James’s Piccadilly’s annual Royal Academy service in June, offering reflections on connection and creativity
Dee Hetherington reflects on how giving of money, time and self has become a deeply personal and prayerful expression of faith, moving from routine obligation to a meaningful offering.
Iona Glen explores how Edna Clarke Hall’s visionary “poem paintings” were shaped by personal upheaval and artistic renewal, revealing a deep creative kinship with William Blake’s fusion of poetry, image, and imagination.
