St. James's Episcopal Church (Richmond, Virginia)

St James' Church
The Parish Church of Saint James
Location	1205 W. Franklin St., Richmond, Virginia 23220
Country	United States
Denomination	Episcopal Church
Churchmanship	Broad church
Website	http://www.doers.org
History
Founded	1835
Founder(s)	Rev. Adam Empie
Dedication	St. James
Dedicated	1918
Architecture
Architect(s)	Noland and Baskerville
Style	English Renaissance
Years built	1839, 1912, 1997
Administration
Diocese	Virginia
Parish	St. James Richmond
Clergy
Rector	Dr. John F. McCard

St. James's Episcopal Church is the third oldest Episcopal congregation in Richmond, Virginia. Only the older St. John's Episcopal Church on Church Hill also remains an active congregation.

The parish takes as its motto, emblazoned above the altar: "Be ye doers of the Word and not hearers only," ascribed to early Christian bishop James the Just, James 1:22. However, its seal includes three scallop shells, traditional symbols of the pilgrim St. James the Greater. Other symbols on the parish's seal include: a star symbolizing Epiphany and the collect for the First Sunday after Epiphany ("Grant (O Lord) that we may both perceive and know what things (we) ought to do, and may also have grace and power faithfully to fulfill the same"), a pelican pecking its breast (to symbolize Christ's sacrifice as well as the Eucharist), and a fish and loaf (both symbolizing Christ and the gospel story of the loaves and fishes of which at least St. James the Greater was witness).^[1] The parish is proud of its longstanding evangelistic outreach tradition.