), it is located in the nucleus of the Oldest City of Prato and an Important Place of Catholic worship and one of the first Franciscan Churches with his big convent built on the ground that was donated by the municipality to the friars minor only eight days after the canonization of the saint, in 1228.
The façade is divided in bichrome stripes in alberese and serpentinite with a central portal, and ends with a 15th-century triangular tympanum with a stucco frieze by Andrea Della Robbia, depicting the Stigmata of St Francis.
Among the artworks are the funerary monument of Geminiano Inghirami (c. 1460), attributed to Pasquino da Montepulciano, who also executed the small cyborium on the presbytery wall.
The latter's tomb in white marble (work of Niccolò di Pietro Lamberti, 1411–12) portrays him within an elaborated Gothic tabernacle.
Completed in the first half of the fourteenth century, the ceiling has two cross vault with ribs; the wall to the left of the entrance is decorated with a cornice in pietra serena during the late renaissance, with and arch on fluted pilasters, with that, we can access to another chapel coeval (of employers Spighi) demolished in 1903.