St James's Piccadilly

St James's Piccadilly is a Grade I listed Christopher Wren church in the heart of the West End. Completed in 1684, and known as the Artists' Church, its interiors include historic works of art by Grinling Gibbons (reredos, organ case and font), postwar Classical interiors by Albert Richardson, and contemporary art by Che Lovelace honouring the 18th-century abolitionist Quobna Ottobah Cugoano.

St James’s seeks to be a welcoming space for people to reflect, create and debate and has a reputation for being a force for good and a pioneering ‘church of firsts’. It was the first historic church to install solar panels, and the first central London church to hold funerals and memorials of men who died from AIDS. The Rector, Revd Lucy Winkett, was one of the first generation of women to be ordained priest in the Church of England.