CopenhagenAndItsEnvirons

PUBLIC BUILDINGS.

CHURCHES.

F r u e k ir k e , or Church of our Lady, situate on an unfinished and neglected plot of ground in Nørregade, is the principal church, or Cathedral, of the City. After being more than once destroyed by fire, the last time at the bombardment of I807, when, on account of the height of the spire, it was a principal mark for the English shells, it was again re-bui r. and finished in 1829. It is a heavy structure, in a rather peculiar style, with a Doric portico far too small in proportion to the building: nor does the interior possess any architectural beauty. But it is adorned by the master-works of Thorvaldsen, and here lies its chief, if not only, attraction. In the pediment is a group in te r r a c o tta of 1 6 figures, representing John the Baptist preaching in the wilderness; and over the entrance to the church within the portico a b a s r e lie f of Christ’s entrance into Jerusalem. Entering the church the eye is immediately struck with the noble and colossal