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After a brilliant development in the 14 th and early 15 th c., there occurred a slowdown in the architecture of Lesser Poland. The new foundations were no longer as sumptuous as the works founded under King Casimir the Great, being generally limited to alterations, renovations, or adding chapels or porches. However, over the discussed period also a number of significant vaulted structures were constructed; these, interesting in their shape, unequivocally question the negative opinion on the quality of Lesser Poland’s architecture in the mid-15 th c. Three most monumental of them, representing different style tendencies, are discussed in the article. The first is the vault in St. Mary’s Church’s chancel rebuilt in 1442 by the master mason Czisper of Kazimierz. The second is the choir vault of the Cracow Church of the Augustinians in Kazimierz, reconstructed after the destruction it suffered in the 1443 earthquake. The latest among the discussed group is the chancel vault in the Dominican Church depending on Parlerian prototypes, and built after the fire of 1462