page_title: Church of St. James the Greater (Jihlava)
section_title: Decoration of the interior
hierarchical_section_title: Church of St. James the Greater (Jihlava) / Architecture / Decoration of the interior
caption_attribution_description: English: Jihlava, Church of Saint James the Elder, photo
context_page_description: The Church of St. James the Greater in Jihlava is an early gothic three-aisled temple nave with a long presbytery and two high towers in the front. It is consecrated to the patron of miners – St. James.
context_section_description: The temple's chancel is covered with a large number of frescoes and medieval paintings. The vault is covered in paintings with Neo-Gothic ornaments, the walls are painted with scenes from the life of St. Bernard.
  The church is equipped with several Baroque gilded altars. The monument of the church is a 7.5m high painting of "Decapitation of St. James", which decorates the main altar. Its author, one of the painters of Empress Maria Theresa, J. N. Steiner, was born in Jihlava.
  In church are kept sculpture treasures - a unique pieta from 1330, the statue of St. Catherine of Alexandria from the beginning of the 15th century and the late Gothic statue of St. James from the 16th century.
  An interesting artefact is the modern replica of the Přemyslid cross. The original is dated to 1330 and is now located in the picture gallery of the Strahov Monastery. The replica is there to remind, that the original was hung in the church of Jihlava.
caption: Church of Saint James the Elder, supporting buttresses
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