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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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In 2017-18, we hosted a major installation of this Environmental Artist working in stone.
Emily Young has been described as ‘Britain’s greatest living stone sculptor’ (FT 2013). Her preoccupation is our troubled relationship with the planet and her works are often monumental, ‘allowing the viewer to comprehend a commonality across deep time, geography and cultures.’ In her combination of traditional carving skills allied with technology where necessary, she produces timeless works which marry the contemporary with the ancient.
Over the course of almost two years in 2017-18, an exhibition of her works was hosted in the Southwood Garden and the Courtyard. The often-gigantic heads of angels populated our site and thrilled our visitors. It was the epic nature of her work that made this historic site a suitable resting place for the pieces, bringing a longer and deeper perspective to a site often characterised by its 17th century architecture, but whose Portland stone dressings contain fossils from the last ice age.
Emily came to open the exhibition and affirmed that her work transcends the boundaries of organised religion while inviting us into a deeper connection with the spiritual undercurrents of the earth itself.
St James’s is privileged to have one permanent sculpture by Young, bequeathed by a much-loved parishioner who died in 2010, Robin Miller. This angel head is on display in the rectory reception.
Lucy Winkett and Emily Young
Installing the statues
