St James's Piccadilly

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  • Address
    197 Piccadilly, Soho, W1J 9LL
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  • Phone
    7734 4511
  • Transport
    underground rail: Green Park
  • 08:00 - 19:00

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Lonely Planet review

The only church Christopher Wren built from scratch and on a new site (most of the others were replacements for ones razed in the Great Fire), this simple building is exceedingly easy on the eye and substitutes what some might call the pompous flourishes of his most famous churches with a warm and elegant user-friendliness. The spire, although designed by Wren, was added only in 1968.

This is a particularly sociable church: it houses a counselling service, stages lunchtime and evening concerts, provides shelter for an antiques market and an arts and crafts fair (from to on Tuesday, and from Wednesday to Sunday, respectively), has a Caffé Nero attached on the side, as well as, what was the last thing…oh, yeah, teaching the word of God.