Liège - St Jacob's Church

(Local Name: Saint-Jacques) South of the cathedral the Rue St-Remy comes to the church of Saint-Jacques (St Jacob's Church), founded in the 11th C. and converted to a splendid example of late Gothic architecture in 1513-1538. The Romanesque portico of 1170 on the west side has been preserved; the magnificent north portal was remodeled by Lambert Lombard in Renaissance style in 1558-1560, but leaving the relief below the arch of the Coronation of the Virgin (1380), a masterpiece of Mosan Gothic sculpture. Worth seeing inside the church are the superb vaulting, the rood- screen (17th C.) and the stained glass (1520-1540).