In the 11th century, the Old Town plaza area was occupied by a Romanesque church, which was built for foreign merchants coming to the nearby Týn Courtyard.

The church was designed in the late Gothic style under the influence of Matthias of Arras and later Peter Parler.

In August 2017 the Czech Bishops Conference resolved to restore the Golden Chalice, installing a temporary model before the end of the month.The final gilded copper sheet sculpture was designed by Petr Malinský and includes engravings of the year and the emblems of the Archbishopric of Prague, the Capital City of Prague and the Czech lion on the border.

In the east, the church is terminated by a short presbytery of one rectangular field, polygonal closed by four sides of the octagon.

The nave and the presbytery are then vaulted by six rectangular, wide-ranging fields of compressed Baroque arches with triangular sections.

The northern portal has a relief in the tympanum depicting three scenes from Christ's Passion in multi- figured compositions.

The painting was by one of the prominent Czech Baroque artist, Karel Škréta, the painter of several other side altar canvases.

In the church can be found works of other Baroque masters: sculptors Jan Jiří Bendl and Ignác František Weiss (altar sculptures), Jan Heidelberger (sculpture of St. Francis de Paul in the northern nave), painters M. Strasser (Finding the Holy Cross, moved from the main altar), Jan Jiří Heinsch (the painting of St. Joseph in the north aisle, the altarpiece of the Family Tree of Jesse), Michael Václav Halbax (the painting of Saints Crispin and Crispinian), Petr Brandl (The arrival of St. Wenceslas at the Reichstag).

Prague Panoramas: National Memory and Sacred Space in the Twentieth Century (Russian and East European Studies) 1st Edition.