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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
Saturday 22 August 2pm till 6pm
Come and enjoy a fun-filled day in the garden with delicious food and drinks as we celebrate summer with some Sports Day-inspired silliness!
Friday 21 August 1.10pm
Rebekah Yinuo Tan was born in August 2006 in Shanghai. Inspired to become a concert pianist after hearing Chopin’s music in a live concert when she was 7, she started taking formal piano lessons half a year later with Zijie Wu.
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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Wednesday 11 November 7pm
Join us for an emotional night of music and memories that’ll stick with you long after the last note plays.
Virtuoso violinist Alda Dizdari, renowned for her original and deeply personal programming, presents a carefully curated selection of works for violin and piano written in the aftermath of two devastating World Wars. At the heart of the evening lies the composers’ profound emotional responses to a changing world—struggles shaped by conflict, loss, displacement and remembrance—interwoven with Dizdari’s own deeply personal connection to each work.
The evening opens, fittingly on 11 November, with Ralph Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending. One of the most cherished works in the violin repertoire, its soaring lyricism and contemplative beauty evoke a profound sense of remembrance, making it a particularly poignant choice for Remembrance Day.
Edward Elgar’s magnificent Violin Sonata follows—a work imbued with the atmosphere of a world forever altered by war. Through its intimacy and nostalgia, Elgar captures the poignancy of a vanished era, revealing both the tenderness of memory and the emotional weight of a world left behind.
George Enescu’s Impressions d’enfance takes us into a richly psychological landscape, where childhood memories and nostalgia become a vehicle for expressing the composer’s profound love for his homeland. Written at a time of immense personal and political upheaval, as Enescu faced exile following the end of the war and the establishment of the Communist regime in Romania, the work becomes both a deeply personal recollection and a poignant farewell to a homeland he could no longer return to.
Through these works, Alda Dizdari creates an evening that is not simply a journey through music, but an exploration of memory, identity, loss, exile and resilience—revealing how profoundly the upheavals of history can shape the most intimate human stories.
