Church of Saint James the Greater in Příbram, Gothic church in Příbram, Czech Republic.

The Church of Saint James the Greater in Příbram is a single-nave Gothic structure with a polygonal presbytery and a square tower. A narrow sanctus bell tower rises from the saddle roof, and the tower is topped by a spire with four octagonal turrets modeled on the Church of Our Lady before Týn in Prague. The nave has a barrel vault with lunettes, and the choir rests on two square pillars with three arches.

A Gothic church arose at the end of the 13th century, probably on the site of an earlier sacred building documented in the mid-13th century. The first rebuilding came in 1560; lightning damaged the tower in 1761, and the church was rebuilt in Baroque style in 1795. Historicizing changes after the mid-19th century, above all in 1869, gave the tower its neo-Gothic roof with four corner turrets.

The church is dedicated to Saint James the Greater, whose early Baroque plague column with his statue stands by the north wall of the tower; it once stood before the cemetery entrance. Opposite is a statue of Saint John of Nepomuk from 1720. The tower holds two bells and a clock mechanism.

The church stands on T. G. Masaryk Square in the old centre of Příbram, with the early Baroque plague column and the 1720 statue of St John of Nepomuk outside. Two bells and a clockwork remain in the tower; the clock, repaired in 1842 by the Prague clockmaker Balke, has reversed hands, the small one showing minutes and the large one hours.

The tower clock has had reversed hands since 1842, when Prague clockmaker Balke repaired it: the small hand shows minutes and the large hand hours. During the occupation the Germans wanted to change it, but the alteration would have required such a complex reconstruction that the plan was abandoned.