St-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas

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Parish Church of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas
View through the nave

Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas is a parish church at 252 rue Saint-Jacques in the 5th arrondissement in Paris .

history

Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas replaced a smaller parish chapel built in 1584 under the direction of the master mason Gourgueron. The foundation stone was laid on September 2, 1630 by Gaston d'Orléans , the brother of Louis XIII. The Janson family of masons was responsible for building the choir. The quarry owners made the material available free of charge, the journeymen from the various craft stalls worked one day a week without wages. After its completion, the work was interrupted for financial reasons and could only be resumed on July 19, 1675 after Anne Geneviève de Bourbon-Condé , Duchess of Longueville and sister of Louis II. De Bourbon-Condé ( Grand Condé ), appropriate funds had made available. The nave and the transept were built between 1676 and 1683 under the direction of the architect Daniel Gittard , who built the southern facade tower in 1683. The northern one is still missing today. The consecration took place on May 6, 1685. In 1688 the building was supplemented by a top chapel according to plans by the architect Libéral Bruant .

Surname

The name of the church is derived from the spiritual knight and hospital order San Giacomo di Altopascio, which was founded in Altopascio (French: Haut Pas) near Lucca . Since the year 1180 he owned the Kommende Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas on the property adjacent to the church , which was used as a hospice and was continued after the order was abolished in 1459.

Main nave with pulpit from 1677 by Jacques Cacquelart

architecture

Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas is a three-aisled, non-easted church. Your choir faces west. The two-storey, sober facade offers a simple, rectangular main portal, which, however, is preceded by a Doric portico with an unadorned gable, above which a simple rose window is embedded on the first floor. Above the smaller side portals, also rectangular and crowned by rose windows of more modest dimensions, the second floor is pierced by high arched windows. Only the southern (left) of the two planned towers was completed.

The four-bay, two-storey main nave is provided with arched arcades and, like the side aisles, covered with simple barrel vaults, in which deep stitch caps for the high, arched upper facade windows were let. A dome vaults the crossing, barrel vaults with stitch caps the transept arms. The long, narrow choir with three straight bays in Gothic style and a five-part apse is surrounded by a narrow deambulatorium and chapels. Both the ambulatory and the chapels are each covered by a single ribbed vault. The rectangular apse chapel, consecrated to the Virgin Mary, is closed by two semi-domed apses. The wall paintings located here were made by Auguste-Barthélemy Glaize in 1868.

Furniture

Among the church furniture and other works of art should be emphasized:

  • the high altar under the crossing, by Léon Zack ;
  • the simple pulpit from 1677, the work of Jacques Cacquelart ;
  • the "Saint James", sculpture from 1988, by Nicolas Alquin , in the north aisle
  • the “Entombment”, sculptural group from 1819, by Charles Degeorge , in the north aisle;
  • the "Saint James as a pilgrim" from the 14th century, in the ambulatory;

Painting:

  • “Annunciation” from 1630, ascribed to the Le Nain brothers , in the north aisle;
  • "Jesus heals Peter's mother-in-law" from 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” from 1665, formerly Eustache Lesueur , today more attributed to Nicolas Mignard , known as Mignard d'Avignon, in the south aisle;
  • “Jesus and the Children” from 1792, by François Gérard , in the south aisle;
  • "Martyrdom of St. Felizitas", attributed to Sébastien Bourdon , in the south aisle;
  • “Presentation of the Virgin Mary in the Temple”, copy by Jacques-Bernard Humbert after a painting by Hyacinthe Collin de Vermont , in the ambulatory;
  • “Assumption of Mary” from 1765, by Étienne Jeaurat , in the sacristy;
  • “The four Latin Fathers of the Church ” from Claude Vignon's workshop , in the sacristy;
  • Eleven panel paintings with the “Seven Sacraments” and “Four Evangelists” from 1851 and 1854, by Sébastien Norblin de La Gourdaine;

organ

Organ of the Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas church

The first organ in the church of St-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas was built in 1628 by the organ builder Vincent Coppeau. The instrument has been replaced several times over the years. When the church of Saint-Benoît-le-Bétourné was profaned in 1792, the organ located there was installed in Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas. The instrument was built in the 16th century by the organ builder Jean Langhedul . After extensive restoration by the organ builder François-Henri Clicquot , it was installed in the Saint-Jacques church. The organ had 37 registers on four manuals and a pedal . Only the organ prospectus is preserved, which is dated to the year 1587. The decorations on the organ front take up the theme of music.

Today's organ was built in 1971 by the organ builder Alfred Kern (Strasbourg). The instrument has 47 registers on four manuals and a pedal. The playing and stop actions are mechanical.

I positive C – g 3
1. Montre 8th'
2. Bourdon 8th'
3. Prestant 4 ′
4th Flûte à cheminée 4 ′
5. Nazard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
6th Duplicate 2 ′
7th Tierce 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
8th. Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
9. Plein-jeu V.
10. Cromorne 8th'
11. Dulcian 8th'
Tremblant
II Grand Orgue C-g 3
12. Bourdon 16 ′
13. Montre 8th'
14th Bourdon 8th'
15th Gros nazard 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′
16. Prestant 4 ′
17th Big tierce 3 1 ⁄ 5  ′
18th Duplicate 2 ′
19th Grande Fourniture II
20th Fittings III
21st Cymbals IV
22nd Cornet V 8th'
23. Voix humaine 8th'
24. Trumpets 8th'
25th Clairon 4 ′
Tremblant
III Récit expressif C – g 3
26th Bourdon 8th'
27. Principal 4 ′
28. Flûte à fuseau 4 ′
29 Flute 2 ′
30th Sifflet 1'
31. Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
32. Cymbals IV
33. Douçaine 16 ′
34. Trumpets 8th'
Tremblant
IV Solo g 0 - g 3
36. Flute 8th'
37. Cornet V 8th'
38. Hautbois 8th'

Pedale C – f 1
39. Flute 16 ′
40. Soubasse 16 ′
41. Flûte conique 8th'
42. Flute 4 ′
43. Night horn 2 ′
44. Mixture V-VI
45. Bombard 16 ′
46. Trumpets 8th'
47. Clairon 4 ′
  • Coupling : I / II, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P

Funerals

The following were buried in this church:

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dictionnaire des Monuments de Paris
  2. ↑ Hillairet
  3. ↑ More information about the organ

Web links

Commons : St-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 37 "  N , 2 ° 20 ′ 29"  E