Perros-Guirec - Saint-Jacques

The first church ever built here, was near the sea, where Saint Guirec, a missionary from Wales, went ashore in the 6th century. The parish church seen here was erected little inland, on a hill ("Perros" - "Pen-roz") and was dedicated to Saint Guirec.
Within the 11th century, the first pilgrims on their way to Santiago passed through and so Saint-Jaques was added.

Of the Romanesque church the nave and the southern walls still exist. The tympanum of the southern portal depicts a "Majestas Domini". All the capitals, flanking the portal, created from a local reddish stone, are very weathered. Here a bishop or abbot (Saint Guirec?), holding a crosier, can still be seen to the right.