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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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Saturday 18 November 7.30pm
Countless performances and an enormous catalogue of recordings testify to the enduring popularity of one of Antonio Vivaldi’s greatest hits, his magnificent Gloria.
Getting here
We are at 197 Piccadilly London W1J 9LL between Piccadilly and Jermyn Street, about 200 yards from Piccadilly Circus.
Access
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
For two centuries after his death, the Gloria lay undiscovered until the late 1920s, when it was found buried among a pile of the composer’s forgotten manuscripts. However, it wasn’t performed until late 1939.
The wonderfully sunny nature of the Gloria with its distinctive melodies and rhythms is characteristic of all of Vivaldi’s music, and gives it an immediate and universal appeal.
A unique and inventive setting of Psalm 110, Handel’s Dixit Dominus is an extraordinary tour de force, particularly for a 22-year-old composer, and demonstrates Handel’s precocious mastery of counterpoint, harmonic and melodic invention and – perhaps most impressively – of powerful dramatic gesture. It is regarded as one of his finest works.
Under the assured direction of its conductor Greg Morris, Collegium Musicum of London Chamber Choir returns – with a glittering array of top soloists – to the Wren-inspired splendour of St James’s, Piccadilly.
As well as these two popular masterpieces, the programme also includes works by JS Bach and Henry Purcell, in a sparkling celebration of the very best of Baroque.
