Jacobikerk
Gothic hall church on the pilgrim route to Santiago, with carved choir screens and a medieval sundial.
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This guide to the Jacobikerk in Utrecht starts with two small carved figures on a sixteenth-century choir screen who look badly out of place in a church. It follows the guilds and brotherhoods who bankrolled the building's growth over two centuries, and the pilgrims bound for Santiago de Compostela who bought their way into its floor. Stand near the high choir, where you can study the screen up close.
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