Parish Church in Perg, Gothic parish church in Perg, Austria.

The Stadtpfarrkirche Perg is a three-aisled Gothic hall church dedicated to St James, the only building standing on Perg's main square. Its oldest part is the former St James's chapel, built around 1416 as the presbytery: two broad rectangular bays with cross-ribbed vaults, a 5/8 polygonal close, richly carved capitals and keystones showing the Lamb of God, St James the Elder and a rose. Six narrow windows without tracery once reached a metre lower, and a niche in the south wall holds the Gothic sacristy portal, in place since 1880.

A Marienaltar is documented in the church at Perg in 1363, but no wooden predecessor has been archaeologically proven. Around 1416 the citizens built a stone St. Jakob chapel on the site of today's presbytery, and on 15 October 1542 Perg became a parish separate from Naarn.

The parish was separated from Naarn on 15 October 1542, and since then baptisms, weddings and funerals for Perg's residents have taken place in this church. The 1416 St James's chapel on the site already had its own cemetery. The market of Perg and Konrad Pestel of Freistadt endowed a perpetual early Mass there on 1 May 1416.

The church stands alone on Perg's main square, so it is easy to find on foot from anywhere in the centre. Interior renovation took place in 1972/73 and the exterior was renovated in 1987. The parish serves about 5,062 Catholics across parts of Perg, Allerheiligen im Mühlkreis and Windhaag bei Perg.

The 1416 chapel that preceded the church had two broad rectangular bays with cross-ribbed vaults, richly carved capitals and keystones showing the Lamb of God, St James the Elder and a rose. Its six narrow windows without tracery originally reached a metre lower than today.