The site had a late 9th-century oratory, followed in the late 10th century by a cruciform temple of Mieszko I. Boleslaw I rebuilt it, and a Romanesque rebuild was consecrated in 1064. The present Brick Gothic temple was built from about 1341 under Archbishop Jarosław Bogoria Skotnicki, with the chancel and large nave finished by the end of the 14th century. The article names no architect. The infobox gives a length of 85 meters, a width of 22 meters and a height of 64 meters.
Fires struck in 1613, 1760 and 1945, the last caused by shelling. A Baroque interior of 1641 to 1652 was removed in a Gothic restoration in the 1950s and 1960s.
It is the seat of the Archdiocese of Gniezno and a shrine of St. Adalbert. It is a Polish Historic Monument.
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