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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
From Sun 6 to 27 April
Breastplate will be displayed behind the altar of the Side Chapel and lit from below so that it glows from within, thereby revealing its feather-filled fragility and the talismanic contents of its pockets.
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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Ken Pratt has parallel backgrounds in senior curatorial, editorial and creative, and marketing and communications roles across a range of sectors, including culture, travel, luxury fashion and lifestyle, and the diplomatic sector, among others. A pioneer of digital in the field of luxury fashion and lifestyle publishing dating back to 2007, he was Editorial Director of a lauded start-up “glossy” magazine that launched a bespoke app on iPhone prior to the release of iPad. As part of the team leading the evolution from a single start-up title to a multiple-title mobile and digital platform for niche luxury fashion, lifestyle and design titles, he worked on launching and evolving the apps for leading titles. His commercial creative projects included innovative in-app commercial content and advertising for international NGO, luxury and premium brands.
Passionate and knowledgeable about art and architecture, his ‘hobby’ has seen him invited to curate exhibitions at respected international institutions in the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Germany, Norway and Slovenia among others. He has curated three official contributions to the International Showcase of the London Festival of Architecture and was the curator of invited artists’ projects of one of the key public art initiatives of London’s 2012 Cultural Olympiad.
A “late starter” in culture and creative, he spent the first half of his career working in and managing specialist public sector education initiatives and specialist NHS-contracted NGO drugs, alcohol, mental health and HIV services.
