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Opposite the southwest corner of the building stands a tent-shaped bell-tower which was connected to the cathedral parvis by a covered gallery in the eighteenth century. This is an extremely interesting speci­men of early Russian architecture. Its lower, two-tiered section is extremely plastic and powerful with broad corner pilaster strips and semi-columns, plain arched windows and narrow slits like loopholes. This section is older than the upper part and was built in 1515. The lower tier was also used as a burial vault and the upper tier contained a tiny church, even more toy-like than the one over the Holy Gates. The upper octagon with the bell-tier and a somewhat heavy tent-shaped spire was added in the seventeenth century and its design differs from that of the lower section. The staircase inside the wall of the lower section originally went even higher which suggests that the church was also topped by a bell-tier. This would make it one of the earliest specimens of a stone tent-shaped church with a bell-tier on top. There were three large bells and three small chimes in the bell-tier. In the northeast outer wall of the second tier there is a niche for another small bell suspended on a wooden beam. This could have been one of the bells which were rung by a rope on ground level as a signal to start the bell-ringing.

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