gilded roof spire, which extends higher than the nave roof, was recreated from old designs and photographs in 1980. Lothar Malskat and the frescos The heat of the blaze in 1942 dislodged large sections of plaster, revealing the original decorative paintings of the Middle Ages, some of which were documented by photograph during the Second World War. In 1948 the task of restoring these gothic frescos was given to Dietrich Fey. In what became the largest counterfeit art scandal after the Second World War, Fey hired local painter Lothar Malskat to assist with this task, and together they used the photographic documentation to restore and recreate a likeness to the original walls. Since no paintings of the clerestory of the chancel were available, Fey had Malskat invent one. Malskat "supplemented" the restorations with his own work in the style of the 14th century. The forgery was only cleared up after Malskat reported his deeds to the authorities in 1952, and he and Fey received prison sentences in 1954. The major fakes were later removed from the walls, on the instructions of the bishop. Lothar Malskat played an important part in the novel The Rat by Günter Grass. Interior decoration St. Mary's Church was generously endowed with donations from the city council, the guilds, families, and individuals. At the end of the Middle Ages it had 38 altars and 65 benefices. The following mediaeval artefacts remain: A bronze baptismal font made by (1337). Until 1942 it was at the west end of the church; it is now in the middle of the chancel. It holds , almost the same as a Hamburg or Bremen beer barrel, which holds . Darsow Madonna from 1420, heavily damaged in 1942, restored from hundreds of individual pieces, put back in place again in 1989 Tabernacle from 1479, high, made by using about 1000 individual bronze parts, some gilded, on the north wall of the chancel Winged altarpiece by Christian Swarte () with Woman of the Apocalypse, now installed behind the main altar Bronze burial slab by Bernt Notke for the Hutterock family (1505), in the Prayer Chapel () in the north ambulatory Of the rood screen destroyed in 1942 only an arch and the stone statues remain: Elizabeth with John the Baptist as a child, Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, the Archangel Gabriel and Mary (Annunciation), John the Evangelist and St. Dorothy. In the