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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 team from St James’s will travel to New York at the invitation of St Bart’s Park Avenue NYC to forge a partnership with them for the future and to launch the American Friends of St James’s Piccadilly. Please do look them up at stbarts.org The trip is for a week at the beginning of September. The team going are treating this trip as a pilgrimage, and will meet daily for prayer and reflection, alongside attending a variety of events, forging new friendships and relationships as we go. A charity auction will be hosted by Christie’s (whose London auction house is in our parish) a reception in Washington DC hosted by the UK ambassador, and a Sunday with St Bart’s church council, musicians and clergy at which our own clergy will preach.
The blueprint of St James’s Church designed by Christopher Wren in 1684 was used during the 17th and 18th centuries to build churches in the USA , and on Sundays St James’s very often has visitors from the USA in our congregation. So we hope that the launch of the American Friends will help support not only the Wren Project but build on our existing strong links and form friendships for the future. This is also part of a London Diocese initiative that partners churches in London with churches in New York. Acutely aware of the carbon footprint of flying, and wrestling with the different complexities of this, the very least we can do is offset the flight, which on this occasion is what we are doing. We are aware that this is not enough, and in taking a whole set of complex decisions, for this and many reasons, we ask you please to keep this trip in your prayers.
