"Church of St. James on Coudenberg"

The architectural style is  Neoclassical.  In the 19th century, a dome and bell tower, as well as a coloured fresco, were added to it. The complex was designated a historic monument in 1959.[1] Nowadays, it ranks as royal parish church, and since 1986, as cathedral of the Military Ordinariate of Belgium. 

The church's facade and portico, with its triangular pediment and its peristyle of six Corinthian columns, evoke the appearance of a Greco-Roman temple.

Two colossal statues from the end of the 18th century, on a high cylindrical base, frame the portico between the doors: King David (by the sculptor François-Joseph Janssens [fr]) and Moses (by the sculptor Jean Philippe Augustin Ollivier . At the top of the portico's three walls are five bas-reliefs by Ollivier of Marseilles, illustrating, from left to right, Christ driving out the merchants of the Temple, Saint John Nepomucene, The martyrdom of Saint James, Saint John at Patmos and Saint Peter and Saint John healing a lame man.

The three blue stone statues of the pediment—Saint James (in the centre) with Saint Andrew (to his right) and Saint John (to his left)—dating from 1861, are the work of the sculptor Égide Mélot [fr]. They were formerly accompanied by two white stone statues of Saint Augustine and Saint John Nepomucene by Pierre Puyenbroeck, currently missing.