Being its name due to its previous position in the centre of the butchers’ shops zone, this church was situated in the present Saint-Jacques plaza, probably from the Carolingian epoch, and it was destroyed in 1797.
It was the meeting place of the pilgrims that departed for Saint-Jacques of Compostella, a very famous pilgrimage in the Middle Ages, devoted to S.Jacques apostle.
Blaise Pascal’s statue, positioned at the ground of the tower reminds its barometric experiences of the Puy-de-Dôme.
A statue of S.Jacques lies in the northwest edge, the platform where a small meteorological station is installed since1891.