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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
Monday to Friday 11am – 3pm
Fresh World Cuisine, Every Weekday Lunchtime!
Friday 20 June 1.10pm
Talia and Michael will perform a programme of songs spanning the years from the building of St James’s Church in 1684 to the present.
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.
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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Mon 2 June – Mon 30 Jun 2025
Enter St James’s Church through the South Door on Jermyn Street for the first time in more than 150 years.
Sir Christopher Wren’s design for St James’s Piccadilly encapsulates the vision he had for the masterplan for rebuilding of the City of London following the Great Fire of 1666, but which ultimately came closest to realisation in areas—such as St James’s—not destroyed by the fire.
Wren envisaged a reborn London in which every street, square or circus would have a view of a church, something he achieved in the relationship between St James’s Church and St James’s Square. But it was more than just that. The visual meaning of sightlines that linked a place where people lived and the church’s original South Door was amplified, symbolising the access and welcome of the church to its parish.
Recreating the South Door was one of four projects within phase one of the Wren Project. Visitors will also be able to see the work in progress on the restoration of the historic Renatus-Harris organ with its organ case by Grinling Gibbons and the memorial ledger stones that were originally at St James’s Burial Ground that have been incorporated into the step-free access to the new South Door with its new lantern and bracket. When the churchyard at St James’s could no longer accommodate any more burials in the late 18th century, land was acquired near what is today Euston Station as a burial ground for members of the congregation. Memorial ledger stones removed when the site was excavated as part of HS2 have been in storage ever since. A selection of these have been integrated into the design of phase one of the Wren Project.
