The Franciscan Church and monastery on the lower end of the town date from the 14th century, built when the Franciscan order established a presence in Kremnica during the mining boom. The exterior is sober Gothic, but the interior rewards a look: there are good frescoes surviving in fragments, a carved wooden altar, and side chapels with funerary monuments to wealthy burghers and mine administrators.
The attached monastery buildings are partly preserved and have been put to various uses over the centuries — suppressed under Joseph II, converted, and later restored. The whole complex conveys the scale of the medieval town's ambition: Kremnica was wealthy enough to support both a castle-church and a major mendicant establishment within its walls.