Church of Saint James the Greater in Stříbrná Skalice, Romanesque church in Rovná, Stříbrná Skalice, Czech Republic

The Church of Saint James the Greater is a single-nave Romanesque building with a rectangular plan, an apse and a prismatic tower at the west front. Its red sandstone from nearby Nučice gives the walls their colour; the church, apse and two thirds of the tower are unplastered, and animal reliefs from the late 12th century sit on the outer north wall.

The church arose around 1150 in the vanished village of Rovná, possibly under Abbot Silvester of Sázava, later Bishop of Prague. It was rebuilt in late Romanesque style around 1240, and research from 1998–2001 allows a single building phase in the early 13th century. From 1382 Rovná paid a papal tithe; during the Counter-Reformation the priests were expelled and Benedictines from Sázava served here until 1715.

The wall paintings were uncovered in 1944 and restored by the academic painter František Fišer. The apse shows the Majestas Domini with apostles and the legend of Saint James, while the nave walls carry a Christological cycle and, on the west wall, the legend of Saint Nicholas.

The church stands in the abandoned village site of Rovná and has no regular services; it opens for guided tours, on the saint's feast day and during the Night of Churches. Beneficiary classical concerts and concerts of the Stříbrná Skalice Music Summer are also held here.

The red sandstone of the walls comes from nearby Nučice. On the outer north wall, stone reliefs with animal motifs from the late 12th century were inspired by the Irish Benedictine abbey church of St. James and St. Gertrude in Regensburg.