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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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From Sun 6 April, Passiontide
‘Breastplate’ was commissioned with a ‘poetic instruction’ sent unannounced to artist/seamstress Kim Thornton in the summer of 2023. The pattern is based on a flak-jacket; body-armour designed to protect against flying fragments of shrapnel and other projectiles.
Art in the Side Chapel
Step into the Side Chapel and immerse yourself in a thought-provoking collection of art curated by the Revd Dr Ayla Lepine. These temporary exhibitions invite visitors to reflect on the transformative power of creativity and faith through the lens of intersectionality.
In April it will be displayed behind the altar of the Side Chapel and lit from below so that it glows from within, thereby revealing its feather-filled fragility and the talismanic contents of its pockets.
Sara Mark
“My work attempts to discover the soulfulness of things and places. It investigates whether inanimate material could be imbued with ‘presence’ through the processes of ritual, time or innate material transformations.The outcomes include installations, objects, videos and collaborations. Perhaps there is a therapeutic intention to the work. Poetry is integral to my practice; I write what Richard Sennett calls ‘expressive instructions’ to engage craftspeople by poetic invitation to co-make ‘objects’. Blacksmiths, glass-blowers, potters, dancers, poets and seamstresses are invited to practice their unique ‘metis’ – the gift of ‘craftiness’ to craftspeople.”
Sara studied at Camberwell College of Arts and gained her MFA at Bath College of Art and Design. She is based in London and Valencia.
