[67] The church was designed by Hansen, and erected about a century ago. The general appearance of the neighbourhood will be greatly improved by the tall spire in the style of Wren, which Dr. Carl Jacobsen is giving, but the portico will be still further crushed. No one ever yet designed a Greek temple that would look well surmounted by a tall Christian steeple. [68] All the figures were designed by Thorwaldsen, but some were finished by pupils. There is a reproduction of that representing Christ in the Johns Hopkins Hospital at Baltimore. [69] Lady Wilde, _Driftwood from Scandinavia_, 1884. [70] Knut the Holy (p. 118), dedicated to St. Alban his church at Odense. [71] It is, of course, impossible that a work like the present should even refer to all the collections and interesting buildings in such a city as Copenhagen. [72] The sound dues which the owners of the castle collected from all the ships that sailed by dated from Hanseatic days. For Sweden they were abrogated by treaty in 1645, for other nations they were commuted for money in 1857. [73] E. C. Otté, _Scandinavian History_. [74] It does not seem certain that the term Gothic was applied to architecture in contempt of mediæval work. Evelyn in 1641 speaks of "one of the fairest churches of the Gotiq design I had seene," at a time when "Gothic" was used much as we employ "Teutonic" to-day. In 1713 Wren (_Parentalia_, a family biography by his son) says, "This we now call the Gothick manner of architecture so the Italians called what was not after the Roman style." The depreciatory use of the term seems first to occur in Dryden, 1695: "All that has not the ancient gust is called a barbarous or Gothique manner." So that it seems quite possible that Gothic architecture merely signified the style of the North of Europe as opposed to that of the South. Mallet (_Northern Antiquities_, translated from _Introduction à l'Histoire de Dannemarc_, 1770) refers to so many mediæval "edifices wherein we can find nothing to admire but the inexhaustible patience and infinite pains of those who built them!" [75] Helen Zimmern. _The Hansa Towns; Story of the Nations._ [76] Only a few miles from Visby is the ruined monastery known as Roma Kloster. [77] In a most interesting paper on the Walls of Visby read before the _Royal Institute of British Architects_, December 16, 1912, which I have found of much value. [78] Another sea-tower is known as Silfverhättan from the material with which it was roofed in the very wealthy days of old. [79] It finally became Swedish again in 1645. [80] There are still some slight remains, but the greater part was carried away by Charles XI. for the building of Karlskrona in the seventeenth century.