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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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Sat 30 Nov 7.30pm
A Ceremony of Carols by Benjamin Britten and King John’s Christmas by Harvey Brough
St James’s aspires to be a place where all can belong, and where every person’s gifts and identities are welcome and celebrated. We are working to improve the experience at St James’s in the church building and the online community. We have step-free access from the courtyard to the church, and a toilet for disabled people. The courtyard and Redemption Roasters coffee shop are wheelchair accessible. If you have special access requirements (e.g. wheelchair users) please contact concerts@sjp.org.uk
After two sold out concerts in 2023, Vox Holloway return to St James’s with a programme looking ahead to Christmas. They sing two of Benjamin Britten’s early masterpieces A Ceremony of Carols and Rejoice in the Lamb, timeless works from 1943 which never lose their freshness. Juxtaposed with the Britten are new pieces by Harvey Brough – settings of AA Milne poems. Now We Are ( ) Six is a companion piece to A Ceremony of Carols, for Tenors and Basses rather than Sopranos and Altos, using some motifs from the Britten to illuminate AA Milne’s childlike but hugely insightful poems. It includes Us Two – the first appearance of a character called Winnie the Pooh. King John’s Christmas is a brand new setting (for SATB) of the beloved poem, the hilarious yet extraordinarily touching story of a king who has everything except his only true desire – a big, red india rubber ball.
With soloists Eloise Irving Soprano Faith Waddell Soprano and Jean Kelly, Harp Michael Haslam, Organ
Directed by Harvey Brough
Running time, 2 hours with an interval.
