Search...
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
Directions on Google Maps
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.
