Châtellerault - Saint-Jacques

Châtellerault has been a halt for the pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela from the very beginning - and of course they all of them stopped at this church to pray. The construction of the church started in 1008 on the ruins of the chapel of an even older Saint-Jacques priory.

In the heydays of the pilgrimage numerous hospices, inns and "auberges", all centered around this church, offered their services.

This large, wooden statue of Saint Jacques is placed on a side aisle of the church. When it was carved within the 17th century, these heydays were already long ago.