Église Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas

Saint -Jacques- du-Haut -Pas is a parish church in the Rue Saint -Jacques # 252 in the 5th arrondissement of Paris.

History

Saint -Jacques- du-Haut -Pas replaced a smaller, established in 1584 under the direction of master builder Gourgueron parish chapel. The foundation was laid on September 2, 1630 Gaston d' Orléans, brother of Louis XIII. For the construction of the choir, the Maurer family Janson was responsible. The material presented the quarry owner free of charge, the journeymen of various crafts stalls worked one day a week without pay. After its completion, the work was interrupted due to financial reasons and were only on July 19, 1675 be resumed after Anne Geneviève de Bourbon- Condé, Duchess of Longueville and sister of Louis II de Bourbon- Condé ( Grand Condé ), matching funds had provided. The nave and the transept were built between 1676-1683 under the direction of architect Daniel Gittard who built in 1683 the southern facade tower. The northern missing until today. The consecration took place on 6 May 1685. In 1688 the building by the architect Libéral Bruand was supplemented by a vertex chapel.

Name

The name of the church derives from the spiritual Military Hospitaller Order of San Giacomo di Altopascio, the Altopascio (French: Haut Pas ) was founded in Lucca. This had since the year 1180 on the adjacent property of the Church, the Coming Saint -Jacques- du-Haut -Pas, which used as a hospice and even after dissolution of the order in 1459 was continued.

Architecture

Saint -Jacques- du-Haut -Pas is a three-aisled, not geostete church. Your choir is facing west. The two-storey, sober façade, offers a simple, rectangular main portal, which, however, a Doric portico in front with an unadorned pediment, above which a simple rose window is let on the first floor. About the smaller side portals, also topped rectangular and rose windows of more modest proportions, the second storey of tall arched windows is broken. Only the southern (left ) of the two planned towers was completed.

The four-bay, two-storey main ship is provided with round arches and how the aisles with simple barrel vaults covered, were let in which deep puncture caps for the high, arched windows. A dome over the transept arches, barrel vaults with lunettes the transept arms. The long, narrow choir with three straight Jochen in the Gothic style and a five- apse is surrounded by a narrow ambulatory and chapels. Both the ambulatory and chapels are each covered by a single cross-ribbed vault. The Virgin Mary consecrated rectangular vertex chapel close with two half-domes vaulted apses from. The located here murals led Auguste Barthelemy Glaize out in 1868.

Furnishings

Under the church furniture and other works of art are to be emphasized:

  • The high altar at the crossing, by Léon Zack;
  • The simple pulpit of 1677, the work of Jacques Cacquelart;
  • The " St. James " sculpture from 1988, by Nicolas Alquin, in the north aisle
  • The " Entombment " group of sculptures of 1819, by Charles Degeorge, in the north aisle;
  • The " St. James as a pilgrim " from the 14th century, in the ambulatory;

Painting:

  • " Annunciation " of 1630, the brothers Le Nain attributed, in the north aisle;
  • "Jesus heals the mother of Petrus " of 1600, by Denys Calvaert, in the south aisle;
  • "Repentance of Peter " by Jean Restout, in the south aisle;
  • Four panel paintings with the four " virtues" of 1665, Eustache Lesueur earlier, now more known as Nicolas Mignard, Mignard d' Avignon, attributed, in the south aisle;
  • " Jesus and the Children " of 1792, by François Gérard, in the south aisle;
  • "Martyrdom of Saint Felicity ", Sébastien Bourdon attributed, in the south aisle;
  • "Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple", a copy of Jacques -Bernard Humbert after a painting by Hyacinthe Collin de Vermont, in the ambulatory;
  • " Assumption " from 1765, by Étienne Jeaurat, in the sacristy;
  • " The four Latin Fathers of the Church " from the workshop of Claude Vignon, in the sacristy;
  • Eleven tablature with the "Seven Sacraments " and " Four Evangelists " of 1851 and 1854, Sébastien de La Norblin Gourdaine;

Organ

The first organ was built in 1628 by organ builder Vincent Coppeau. The instrument has been replaced more than once over time. When the church Saint- Benoît- le- Betourne was desecrated in 1792, which located there organ in Saint -Jacques- du-Haut -Pas was erected. The instrument was built in the 16th century by the organ builder Jean Langhedul. After an extensive restoration by the organ builder François -Henri Clicquot it was rebuilt in the church of Saint -Jacques. The organ had 37 stops on four manuals and pedal. Get it is only the organ case, which is dated in the year 1587. The decorations on the organ front grip on the theme of music.

The present organ was built in 1971 by organ builder Alfred Kern ( Strasbourg). The instrument has 47 stops on four manuals and pedal. The play and Registertrakturen are mechanical.

  • Couplers: I / II, III / II, I / P, II / P III / P

Burials

Were buried in this church:

Rue Saint-Jacques (Paris) Auguste-Barthélemy Glaize Jean II Restout Eustache Le Sueur Church Fathers Jean Duvergier de Hauranne
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