Be the first to experience St James’s via the South Door onto Jermyn Street, part of Sir Christopher Wren’s design. The original door was walled up in the 1840s. The last five months has seen the door painstakingly recreated with design led by Ptolemy Dean Architects.
The South Door is not only about restoring the aesthetic integrity of Wren’s original design and it’s relational meaning to the contemporaneous neighbourhood of St James’s when the church opened in 1684, but contemporary needs such as improved step-free access and reinterpreting the building’s history, something manifest in the integration of memorials from the church’s burial ground near Euston excavated for HS2.
Explore recorded conversations with those involved in the project, offering additional information and context for visitors. From architects and artists to specialist masons and theologians, topics range from contested heritage and sacred space to human stories of those memorialised in the church.
