San Giacomo, Gothic church in Sassari, Italy

San Giacomo is a Gothic church in Sassari built with a rectangular floor plan and barrel-vaulted ceiling that creates a sense of height and openness. The apse features a quadrangular shape with ribbed cross vaulting, typical of the Gothic style found in this region of Sardinia.

A stone inscription records the founding in 1269 by Pievano D. Pietro Fata, making this one of Sassari's oldest places of worship. The Confraternity of Oration and Death took over management in the 1500s and has maintained the building since then.

The church belongs to the Archconfraternity of Prayer and Death, a city confraternity devoted to works of mercy that admits only members of the nobility. Its symbols appear on the lunette above the courtyard gate: an hourglass, a skull with two crossed bones and a cross. The gate arch also carries a marble slab inscribed "Chiesa di San Giacomo".

The courtyard entrance is on Via Decimario, opposite the cathedral, between Palazzo Farina and Palazzo Manca di Mores. The gate bears the Confraternity's symbols: an hourglass, a skull with crossed bones and a cross. The church is entered through the side door in the courtyard, above which stands the statue of Saint James.

The two rococo side chapels were commissioned in the 1770s and 1780s by Count Francesco Brunengo of Monteleone, whose coat of arms is carved above their arches. The left one holds a 17th-century Madonna del Pilar brought here from the demolished church of Santa Elisabetta.