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Church Saint Jacques

The church Saint Jacques<BR>



On the place of the village called Villefranche-de-Conflent , the Tower of the Devil has to be seen, but especially the charming Church Saint-Jacques leaned to the ramparts with the pink-marbled façade.


You will admire its portal sculptured in the twelfth century and its wrought iron motives nearly the same one's than those of the Church of Serralongue

To the left of this Romanic portal are the grooves which were used for measuring sheets during markets.


You will also appreciate in the nave, over the Altar dating from the thirteenth century, the beautiful altarpiece coming from the Catalan Master whose name is Sunyer, a great Crucifixion from the fourteenth century and in the nave on your right-hand a magnificent wooden lying Christ, dating from the thirteenth century...


What attracted our attention, are the graves decorated with smiling heads of dead people.


In the place of Baptism (nave on your left hand), you will find a very deep pink-marbled tank, where the baptisms were practised by wholly immersion in the holy water, and this was practised until the fourteenth century.

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Eglise Saint-Jacques
66500 - Villefranche de Conflent
 

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