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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.
Revd Dr Ayla Lepine met with curator and art historian Alayo Akinkugbe for a conversation about justice, beauty and hope expressed in Che Lovelace’s paintings and Cugoano’s memorial.
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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Monday 12 August – Friday 16 August
The Singing Scholars of St James’s Piccadilly are off on their third summer choir tour.
Monday 12 August 5.30pm
Choral Evensong – Ripon Catherdral
Tuesday 13 August 5.30pm
Wednesday 14 August 5.30pm
Thursday 15 August 6pm
Choral Evensong for the Feast of the Assumption – Selby Abbey
Friday 16 August 4.30pm
Sung Compline – Fountain Abbey
Three years ago, St James’s embarked on a new music scholarship programme for young musicians. Singing and playing at services on a Sunday and at the Sanctuary Eucharist on Tuesday evenings, the group has quickly established itself as a much loved aspect of St James’s life. Unusually for a scholarship programme, we ask them to sing not only the usual choral repertoire but responsorial psalms each week and in addition jazz and more relaxed music too. And to join on Sunday mornings together with our Lay Singers, ensuring an inclusive music offering for our main act of worship.
Over the past three years the programme has expanded, adding Choral Evensongs and concerts, organ and conducting scholars as well as instrumental, and each fresh cohort bring with them their own talent and commitment which enriches our worship and music programme. A new tradition of a summer tour has been established, which includes past scholars as well as present. This year, the group have fund raised for themselves the costs of accommodation and travel. It is wonderful to think of our St James’s musicians out and about, bringing this excellent music and commitment to diversity to other parts of the UK. If you are interested in supporting this programme into the future, we need funds to continue in 2024-5.
Please contact development@sjp.org.uk if you’d like to help.
Our conducting scholar Harry Williams writes
The Singing Scholars of St James’s Piccadilly are off on their third summer choir tour. Having been to the West and the East of England they are now venturing to the heights of the North, singing at three Evensongs at Ripon Cathedral, another Evensong at Selby Abbey and at a very special unique service of Compline within the beautiful ruins of Fountains Abbey.
Compline is a monastic service that would’ve been sung at the Abbey every evening until its reformation in 1539. To be able to sing in this building is truly extraordinary. The singers cannot wait to take St James’s on the road, and sing in these sublime buildings.
