Kapelle St. Jakob / S. Giacun, Brigels

History: The chapel was built in 1514 and consecrated on 16 June 1515. In 1697 an extension to the west took place.

Building description: The chapel is a geostatic, three-sided completed building without an architecturally precluded sanctuary. A two-part pointed arch window with simple, late Gothic tracery. In the final wall a bricked oculus. In the south side a device table with Gothic chamfer. Door frame made of tuff shows Gothic chamfers. Uniformly shingled gable roof with open roof rider under octagonal pointed helmet.

Wall paintings: On the north wall of the older part a crucifixion group. All paintings in this chapel date from around 1514.

Equipment: Simple, two-column early Baroque altar. Altarpiece with St. James, signed around 1681. The ornamentation stands at the transition from Régence to Rococo, around 1750.

Bell: Without inscription; 1515.

(Text entered by: Regiun Surselva)