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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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This week we’d like to introduce Oscar Hansen one of our new singing scholars.
’My interest in music started one Christmas in my childhood. I was probably around 10 years old, and my parents gifted me a little Yamaha electronic keyboard. I’d slowly teach myself some basic tunes and how to read musical notation over the next few years, taking up alongside the piano the violin, drumkit, harp, and eventually singing, too.
I’ve now been singing as a baritone and bass in choirs for around 10 years, starting in my school choir at Tiffin in Kingston upon Thames, then to University College Oxford, followed by St. Mary’s Battersea, and now St. James’s Piccadilly. Some of the highlights of my choral career have been tours to several different countries and major performances at home and abroad, including at the Royal Festival Hall, Barbican, Royal Albert Hall, St. Paul’s Cathedral, St. Vitus Cathedral Prague, Lambertikirche Oldenburg, MOM Cultural Centre Budapest, and more.
Beyond choral singing, I sang in and musically directed the Oxford Commas, an a cappella group at university, with whom I went on tours and appeared in a TV competition on Sky. I’ve also enjoyed performing in musical theatre productions, playing various instruments with orchestras and bands, and sometimes simply belting out some classic pop, funk, and jazz tunes at an open mic or karaoke night.
Despite barely being able to sing in choirs since the coronavirus pandemic began, I’m very excited to return to it this year with St. James’s. I’m most looking forward to what is, in my opinion, the best aspect of choral singing: the simple joy of making great quality music together. I hope to add to the musical life and community at St James’s over the next year and perhaps beyond.’
