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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.
St James’s Piccadilly, The Sixteen and the Genesis Foundation have joined forces in a five-year partnership celebrating the power of music to inspire, connect and bring people together. Discover extraordinary performances, new music and opportunities for the next generation of musicians.
At Christmas, St James’s is a place where everyone is welcome. For people facing loneliness, homelessness, poor mental health, financial hardship or displacement, our doors can offer something as simple – and as important – as a warm welcome, practical support and a place where they are known and treated with dignity.
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 put faith into action through hospitality, advocacy and practical support, championing equality, racial justice and the dignity of refugees and asylum seekers.
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.
It costs £5,000 each day to keep the doors of St James’s open to all who already 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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11-18 November
The goal of this collection is to force conversation between two of the greatest paradoxes that exist today: Queerness and Religion.
The goal of this collection is to force conversation between two of the greatest paradoxes that exist today: Queerness and Religion. As a queer atheist I want to spotlight and celebrate prominent openly queer leaders in religion. These subjects risk so much personally in order to live in their truth and create positive change within the monotheistic religions. The subjects captured provide a safe space within institutions that historically have promoted queerphobia.
“Religion is more than belief, it’s power and it’s influence. That influence affects all of us regardless of your own belief. Criticism does not change things, neither does invalidation. So how do we walk this tightrope?”
Chelsea Sheilds
Frances Marshall is a classical music and opera photographer who has been working in the industry predominantly in the UK, Europe and the U.S. Her clients include some of the world’s greatest classical musicians and arts organisations. As a fine art photographer and through her exhibition work, she has been awarded the Portrait of Britain, Semifinalist at Head On Festival Sydney, and shortlisted for the Royal Photographic Society International Exhibition, Helsinki Photo Festival and Taylor Wessing Award.
I’m constantly fascinated by what each of us sees as unfamiliar or other, looking deeply into paradoxes and recognising our biases and judgements that hang on us like chains. These chains cause us to shrink our empathy and limit our ability to connect and remaining curious today seems like the greatest obstacle for many of us. Through my work I’m learning new perspectives about not only a community that I belong to but the nuances of intersectionality that I have never before considered. I hope that with my work, I open hearts and minds to being more curious rather than judgemental while always coming from a place of empathy and sensitivity to a person’s experience that is different to one’s own. It’s paramount to me that the subjects that I work with have a dominant voice, that there’s no sense of voyeurism or exploitation.
