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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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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.
