Church of St. James on T. G. Masaryk Square

Originally a Gothic building from the first half of the 13th century, it has been rebuilt several times. In addition to its spiritual mission, the church also had a defensive function. The current appearance of the church dates from 1869. Before this date, the tower had a hipped roof. The original shingle roofing was replaced by slate and the tower gained four lateral neo-Gothic turrets, so characteristic when looking at the centre of Pribram today. Other interesting features of the Church of St. James the Greater, which can be noticed during a tour of the interior, include a large mural of Příbram by Jan Umlauf, documenting the face of the town in the late 1870s. The local organ is also a pride.

Thetower clock has an interesting feature: the hours are indicated by a large hand, the minutes by a small one.

T. G. Masaryk Square is the historical centre of Příbram. It was separated from the archbishop's castle in the 2nd half of the 14th century by a moat with a bridge. It used to be closed by three gates. In front of the originally Gothic church of St. James, surrounded by a cemetery, there was a school and a pub, with meat shops below. Below the church, a block of houses stood in the area of the square still in the Renaissance. The town hall used to be in the lower part of the square and in front of it were bakers' shops, a pillory and a fountain.

The houses on the square belonged to the wealthiest inhabitants who rebuilt them according to the taste of their time. The core of the Holý House (no. 144) has been preserved from the Middle Ages. After the Thirty Years' War, baroque houses, mostly rebuilt in the second half of the 19th century, were built on the plots of burnt houses with the participation of Italian and German craftsmen called by the Jesuits to build Svatá Hora.

The Classical period gave the square the character of a bourgeois centre. There used to be markets and shops, inns and hotels. Miners' parades and other processions were held here and St. Mary's processions passed through. A new town hall was built next to the headquarters of the Příbram mining plant. These were the buildings to which demonstrators during the miners' strikes and citizens during the proclamation of the Czechoslovak Republic were directed. This is where the inhabitants of Příbram came to welcome the soldiers of the liberating armies in 1945. The current appearance of the square is the result of modifications made over the last five decades.