Església de Sant Jaume, Gothic Revival and Baroque church in Gothic Quarter, Barcelona, Spain.
Església de Sant Jaume is a church in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona that combines Gothic Revival and Baroque elements within a medieval urban setting. The building has pointed arch doorways, ribbed vaults inside, and a 19th-century facade that stands apart from the older structures around it.
The church was built on the site of a former synagogue that once served Barcelona's medieval Jewish community. A major renovation in the second half of the 19th century gave it the Neo-Gothic appearance it has today.
The parish keeps the devotions of the Hermandad y Cofradía de Nuestra Señora de las Angustias, the Hermandad Nuestra Señora del Rocío de Barcelona and the Hermanitas del Cordero, who run it. The name Sant Jaume comes from the old parish church on Plaça de Sant Jaume, whose title moved here in 1835 after that church was demolished in 1823.
The church stands at Carrer de Ferran 28, a short walk from Plaça de Sant Jaume and the Liceu metro stop on the Rambla. The entrance is the 1398 Gothic doorway; the 1878 relief of Saint James on horseback sits above it. The surrounding streets are busiest in the middle of the day.
The tympanum relief above the main door, carved by Josep Santigosa in 1878, shows Saint James on horseback, not a six-pointed star. The only surviving element of the 14th-century church is the Gothic doorway itself, contracted in 1398 to Ramon de la Porta and Bartomeu Gual.
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