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This unity is also found in the refectory Church of the Assumption built in 1525 almost directly opposite the bell-tower. Its faceted apses face the cathedral court yard and are decorated with bands of ogee-shaped niches and kokoshniks which also include a row of narrow arched windows. The square main body of the church rises above the central apse and is crowned by tiers of kokoshniks around the base of the short octagon that carries the tent-shaped spire. The side apses were originally surmounted by two smaller tent-shaped spires which probably had similar tiers of kokoshniks around their octagonal bases. This composition was evidently copied in the bell-tower and gateway church with their tent-shaped spires. Later buildings erected on the right and left of the east wall obscure most of the church. The main body of the refectory stretches back into the monastery courtyard and cannot be seen from the central square. It consists of a large hall once decorated with frescoes but now considerably changed by nineteenth-century alterations, standing on a lower storey used for domestic purposes. Its west wall is particularly fine with a cornice of balusters and pointed brick that stands out against the plain walls with their simple arched windows arranged symmetrically without any decoration.
Subsequent study of the tent-shaped buildings in the Spaso-Yevfimiev Monastery and the Convent of the Intercession has shown them to be important specimens of this type of architecture which was predominant in the sixteenth century.
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