Spišská Kapitula used to be a spiritual centre of Spiš from as early as the 12th century. Already during this time, at a place called Pažica today, a monastery was situated. Moreover, an abbey was set up in Spišská Kapitula no later than at the end of the 12th century. In the 1st half of the 13th century a new representative church devoted to St. Martin was erected, probably with the support of the king. In terms of its construction, an architectonic disposition widely spread on the territory of contemporary medieval Hungary (and which can be found also on many other...