Church of the Resurrection
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Church of the Resurrection is located in Gorokhovets Vladimir region. Date and author of the modern building of the stone church known. Presumably - it's 1700.

The church building - a massive, two-storey, rectangular. The temple stands on a high basement. Three of the apse and the porch - below the central volume. On the porch is a porch, which has a massive four-sided pillars decorated pants.

The central volume of the temple is completed five chapters. Roofs - hipped. The walls are crowned by a series of decorative corbel arches, which find support on a wide multidisciplinary ledge. Flat blades decorate the corners of the main volume. Window openings are arched. They frame the various frames that give the church of grace and elegance.

Temple - besstolpny, closed closed vault. The thickness of the walls of the first floor up to two meters.

The spatial composition of the building is different gradation. The height of the volumes is enhanced to the middle part: basement apse, apse of the church porch, the bulk of the apse, and the actual amount of its completion. Just to the south all the volume of construction carried out in a single horizontal plane. Podkletny first floor from the second stripe separates the curb.

Once the northern porch was on the open arcade with Korobov vault as well as four open porch on powerful pillars. Poles porch - round, wide, characterized by a squat, with bases and capitals of the original form.

Basement windows - rectangular. They are just as luchkovye arched windows and other volumes, decorated aprons of various shapes, which was based on the roller. Horizontal thrust kokoshniki, plinth, arkaturny belt drums are variations of the forms created by the rollers. On the walls is particularly attractive plastic casings drawing.

From the front of the temple of whitewashed grout. Roofs and heads made of iron, painted in green color. The foundation is not visible. Cap labeled roller and the protrusion. Window frames - modern, made of wood, single. Decorative wrought-iron grille has not figured on all the windows. Stairway porch made of wood. At the entrance survived several white stone steps.

The temple floor - wooden. The walls of the upper windows to cover the oil paint above has whitened painting. Interior layout is spacious. The top row of windows is in the arched niches with pronounced bevels down, lower - in the arched niches of the floor. The porch floor is made of wood. Body - Korobov, with sharp strikings over the entrances and windows. Hall porch - a tall, elongated from north to south. The windows are placed in the high arched niches with stucco on the tape loop. All doors - wooden.

Apse - high, spacious, and strikings Korobov vault over the windows. Three niches are arranged on the left side. The floor is made of wood. The walls are whitewashed in painting.

Podkletny floor - low, blocked Korobov vault with trays to the west and raspalubkovym site. Window openings are very deep slopes. In two southern windows - the lattice cage. Door basement - old with dual vestibule.

Gorokhovetsky Church of the Resurrection is an example of a large five-domed in the developed basement with two-story porches Besstolpny one-part without the refectory of the church and bell tower typical of temples merchant tenements with the features of religious and residential architecture of the XVII century.

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