Built in the Late Middle Ages, it was the historically the cultural centre of the town and Nysa's largest sacramental building.

[1] There has been a parish church at the site since the first was built between 1195 and 1198 and consecrated in 1198 by Jarosław, Duke of Opole and Bishop of Wrocław.

[5] St. James's Church was then Nysa's highest building, with its rooftop surpassing other structures in the exceptionally historic part of town.

[6] It is the burial site of Duke Wenceslaus II of Legnica from the Piast dynasty.

The church was visited several times by King Władysław IV of Poland.