Chotěboř - church of St. James the Elder

The Church of Saint James the Greater is located in the northern part of the city, above Trčků z Lípa Street. A Romanesque chapel stood here already in the 12th century, fragments of whose masonry are preserved in the city museum. In the second half of the 14th century, it was rebuilt into a Gothic parish church. The church was damaged by a series of fires in 1692, 1740, 1800 and 1832, while in 1740 the adjacent cemetery with…