St. James's Church, Piccadilly is an Anglican church on Piccadilly in the centre of London. It was designed and built by Sir Christopher Wren. The term Anglican describes those people and churches following the religious traditions of the Church of England, especially following the Reformation. ... Piccadilly is a major London street, running from Hyde Park Corner in the west to Piccadilly Circus in the east. ... The Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster which contains Big Ben Tower Bridge at night A red double-decker bus crosses Piccadilly Circus. ... Christopher Wren by Godfrey Kneller, 1711. ...

The church is built of red brick with Portland Stone dressings. The church's interior has galleries on three sides supported by square pillars, and the nave has a barrel vault supported by Corinthian columns. The carved marble font and limewood reredos are both good examples of the work of Grinling Gibbons. A weathered brick wall. ... Portland Stone is limestone from the Jurassic period quarried on the Isle of Portland, Dorset. ... In architecture, the barrel vault is a vault which is similar to a tunnel. ... The Corinthian order as used for the portico of the Pantheon, Rome provided a prominent model for Renaissance and later architects, through the medium of engravings. ... Marble This page is about the metamorphic rock. ... A font can mean: A member of a typeface family; or digital font - file format that encapsulates a typeface family in a database. ... Species About 30, including: Tilia americana - Basswood or American Linden Tilia cordata - Small-leaved lime Tilia mongolica - Mongolian linden Tilia platyphyllos - Large-leaved lime Tilia tomentosa - Silver linden Tilia is a genus of about 30 species of tree. ... An altar and reredos from University Church, Dublin A reredos is a screen or decoration behind the altar in a church, usually depicting religious iconography or images. ... One of the many bookcase carvings Gibbons made for the Wren Library, Cambridge. ...

History

In 1662, Henry Jermyn, 1st Earl of St Albans was granted land for residential development on what was then the outskirts of London. He set aside land for the building of a parish church and churchyard on the south side of what is now now Piccadilly. Christopher Wren was appointed the architect in 1672 and the church was consecrated on the 13th July 1684 by Henry Compton, the Bishop of London. Events March 18 – Short-timed experiment of the first public buses holding 8 passengers begins in Paris May 3/May 2 - Catherine of Braganza marries Charles II of England – as part of the dowry, Portugal cedes Bombay and Tangier to England May 9 - Samuel Pepys witnessed a Punch and Judy... Henry Jermyn, 1st Earl of Saint Albans (c. ... Events England, France, Munster and Cologne invade the United Provinces, therefore this name is know as ´het rampjaar´ (the disaster year) in the Netherlands. ... July 13th is the 194th day (195th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 171 days remaining. ... Events France under Louis XIV makes Truce of Ratisbon separately with the Empire and Spain. ... Henry Compton (1632 - July 7, 1713), English divine, was the sixth and youngest son of the second earl of Northampton. ... The current Bishop of London is Richard John Carew Chartres, who is the 132nd Bishop, and was installed on January 26, 1996. ...

Samuel Clarke was rector from 1709 to 1729 and was one of the leading intellectual figures of eighteenth-century Britain. William Blake was baptised at the church in 1757. Leopold Stokowski was choirmaster from 1902 until 1905 when he left for a similar position in New York. Samuel Clarke. ... The word rector (ruler, from the Latin regere) has a number of different meanings. ... Events January 12 - Two-month freezing period begins in France - The coast of the Atlantic and Seine River freeze, crops fail and at least 24. ... Events July 30 - Baltimore, Maryland is founded. ... William Blake (November 28, 1757 – August 12, 1827) was an English poet, painter and printmaker, or Author & Printer, as he signed many of his books. ... 1757 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Leopold Stokowski Leopold Stokowski (April 18, 1882 - September 13, 1977) (born Antoni StanisÅ‚aw BolesÅ‚awowicz) was the conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the NBC Symphony Orchestra and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. ... 1902 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1905 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

The church was severely damaged by enemy action in 1940, during the 2nd World War. 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... German soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad World War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the worlds nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. ...

See also

• List of churches and cathedrals of London

London has many famous churches and cathedrals, in a density unmatched anywhere else in England. ...

External links

• St James's Picacadilly website

Sources

• Book London Architecture, written by Marianne Butler, published in 2004 by Metro Publications, ISBN 1902910184.
• Web page http://www.st-james-piccadilly.org/', retrieved on the 6th April 2004 at 15:00 BST.