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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.
Thur 24 Oct 6.30pm
Fact, fiction, faith: AI in an uncertain world – a conversation with Jocelyn Burnham, and Dr Shauna Concannon.
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 cultural 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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Maundy Thursday 28 March 6.30 – 10pm
This service includes the opportunity to have your feet washed, following the example of Jesus and the disciples at the Last Supper
This service includes the opportunity to have your feet washed, following the example of Jesus and the disciples at the Last Supper. During the service, a procession moves out of the church into the garden to echo the gospel accounts of Jesus’s journey from the Last Supper to the Garden of Gethsemane. Back in the church, silent meditation until 10pm will be held around a symbolic Garden of Gethsemane. Please come and go quietly as you wish during this time.
The altar is stripped at the end of the Maundy Thursday service, candles are put out at 10pm, and no flame appears in services until the Easter fire on Easter Day. The aumbry or tabernacle (the cabinet in the wall in the side chapel where consecrated wafers are held) is emptied and all altar cloths are removed as a sign of grief and lament, at the events surrounding the death of Jesus of Nazareth and also at the continuing oppression, violence and torture in the world today.
