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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 2 August 1.10pm
William Jack is an Australian multi-style cellist and songwriter, based in London. He is best known for incorporating his jazz guitar background into an unconventional style of cello playing, with a passion for breaking boundaries between genres and cultures.
Sun 3 August 2-4pm
Join us for exuberant gospel music with Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir in the courtyard.
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.
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.
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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Saturday 13 May 7pm
The celebrated chamber choir Vivamus, one of Britain’s finest period instrument orchestras The Hanover Band, and acclaimed conductor Rufus Frowde (Organist of the Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace) perform a vibrant programme of English music, dominated by the splendour of English Baroque in the works of George Frideric Handel and Henry Purcell.
Getting here
We are at 197 Piccadilly London W1J 9LL between Piccadilly and Jermyn Street, about 200 yards from Piccadilly Circus.
In the week following the Coronation of King Charles III, the concert opens with Handel’s most-celebrated coronation anthem Zadok the Priest. This is juxtaposed with the music of the Georgian composer William Harris (Faire is the Heaven) and John Tavener (Little Requiem for Father Malachy Lynch), alongside the London premiere of Rufus Frowde’s ‘Were I not to sing’.
The performance is in the Wren church of St James’s Piccadilly, a church which was consecrated just a few years before the composition of Purcell’s Ode on St Cecilia’s Day 1692 (“Hail! Bright Cecilia”) – the centrepiece of the programme, a work which showcases choral and instrumental virtuosity in a dramatic depiction of the birth and personality of instruments and song.
