A number of frescos, probably painted by artists from the Brarup workshop, have been uncovered on the cross vaults, most recently above the organ.

The red-brick church was probably built in or shortly after 1492 when King Hans transferred the site into the ownership of Copenhagen University.

[1] The masonry, however, contains traces of an earlier Romanesque limestone structure, probably dating from Valdemar Atterdag's reign.

[2] Today's late Gothic building, 40 m (130 ft) in length, has a brick nave with limestone trimmings.

Decorations in the form of limestone belts reach the level of the roof on the eastern side but have been less systematically completed elsewhere, perhaps indicating rushed construction work.