Did Stanley Spencer visit Urbino?

A detail from the Crucifixion fresco by the Salimbene brothers in the Oratory of San Giovanni Battista in Urbino. 

The poses and gestures of the two gesticulating mourners, Magdalene with corkscrew hair and Baptist with fur-lined robe, are SO similar to figures by Stanley Spencer that his seemed copied.  They make me wonder if Spencer ever visited Urbino?  He is not known as an artist who travelled in Europe, and his major voyage during WWI was from Britain to Thessalonika where he was stationed with the Army Medical Corps.  The ship appears to have paused in Corsica, but if Spencer somehow got to Italy it would surely have registered in his biography.

Of course, he could have seen reproductions of the paintings in books on early Italian art.  But the other curious coincidence is that the fresco-covered Oratory in Urbino is similar in size and shape to the Sandham Memorial Chapel in Hampshire which Spencer decorated with mural paintings of the war,  with comparably flattened and crowded picture spaces and a dual register of scenes on the side walls.   Accounts of Sandham cite the Giotto friezes in the Scrovegni chapel in Padua as inspiration, and this was very well known in art books.  The Salimbene oratory seems to have more affinity with Sandham, however.   One would love to know more.