St. James Church is a

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church Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a place/building for Christian religious activities and praying * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian comm ...

located in

Montclar d'Urgell Montclar may refer to the following places: * Montclar, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, a commune in the department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France * Montclar, Aude, a commune in the department of Aude, France * Montclar, Aveyron, a commune in the d ...

, in the municipality of

Agramunt Agramunt () is a municipality (''municipi'') in the ''comarca'' of the Urgell in Catalonia. It is situated in the north of the ''comarca'', near the border with the Noguera. It has a population of . The town centre is protected as a historic-art ...

. It is a building included in the .

Description

The church is a single-

nave The nave () is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel. When a church contains side aisles, as in a basilica-type ...

church covered with a barrel vault, which opens with three side chapels through a half-point arch. Two small domes rise on each side of the

transept A transept (with two semitransepts) is a transverse part of any building, which lies across the main body of the building. In cruciform ("cross-shaped") cruciform plan, churches, in particular within the Romanesque architecture, Romanesque a ...

. The main

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is polygonal. In the re-decoration there is a remarkable and innovative element for the churches of this period. There is a double tribune, one that communicates with the Montclar Castle, and another lower one corresponding to the church itself. The entrance to the church is at the foot of the west wall, through a large staircase and a

semi-circular arch In architecture, a semicircular arch is an arch with an intrados (inner surface) shaped like a semicircle. This type of arch was adopted and very widely used by the Romans, thus becoming permanently associated with Roman architecture. Termi ...

made of bricks. The bell tower is quadrangular and subdivided into three floors. On the first floor there are half-point openings that house the bells and on the top floor there is a clock on each face of the tower. It is made of perfectly cut regular

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s and is crowned with a pyramidal roof.

History

Before this current church, there had been a medieval iteration of the church, possibly dedicated to Saint John. That is why it was built in the XVIII centuryComarcal Council of l'Urgell
Montclar d'Urgell
on a previous church dedicated to Sant Joan.Festa Catalunya

/ref> The church depended on until in the XIX century. To the east is the bell tower dated to 1628 in which there are two bells built in 1814.

References

External links

Website of the Diocese of Urgell
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