St. Jacques Tower Paris

Dominating the whole square, the tower is all that is left of the old church of St Jacques la Boucherie, destroyed in 1797. Erected between 1508 and 1522, it is 171 feet high and its style belongs to the purest Flamboyant Gothic. It has narrow windows alternating with niches surmounted by spires and pinnacles, within which are many statues. The statue on the top of the tower represents St James the Greater (Chenillon, 1870). Another statue, depicting Pascal, stands at the base of the tower, under the vaults, in memory of the experiments on the weight of air which he made in 1648. The tower today contains two weather stations.





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