Lucy Winkett

Lucy Winkett is Rector of St James’s Piccadilly, and Priest in Charge of St Pancras Euston Road, a writer, broadcaster and musician. One of the first generation of women to be ordained priest in the 1990s, and the first woman priest to be appointed to St Paul’s Cathedral, she holds degrees in modern history and theology from Cambridge and Birmingham, and was a founding advisor for the public theology thinktank Theos and later Tortoise media.

She was the founding Chair of Governors of the first Church of England Academy school in London and co-founder of ‘Leading Women’, a national development programme for women clergy. She is a regular contributor to Radio 4’s Today Programme ‘Thought for the Day’ and is currently leading ‘The Wren Project’, a £20m rejuvenation project at St James’s. Her publications include ‘Our Sound is our Wound’ (Bloomsbury 2010), ‘God’s Song and Music’s Meaning’ (Routledge 2020) and ‘Reading the Bible with your Feet’ (Canterbury Press 2021). She was awarded an honorary doctorate from Winchester University and her most influential spiritual experiences have been living in a L’Arche community with people with learning disabilities and completing the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises during a month in silence.