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The finest specimen of their work and possibly the best seventeenth-century building in Suzdal was the Trinity Cathedral (111. 83) situated in the northeast part of the convent and probably built at the same time as th Holy Gates. Its extremely lavishly decorated south wall formed the north side of the convent quadrangle. Th cathedral was raised on a high ground storey and sur­rounded on three sides by covered galleries. The walls of the galleries were divided by pairs of semi-columns and had  twin  windows  with  curved  brick surrounds below which ran a narrow band of coloured tiling simi­lar to that on the Holy Gates. On the southwest corner of the parvis there was a slightly protruding bell-tower whose high square base rose above the roofs of the ca­thedral galleries and had an open porch in the lower tier with round corner columns. The curve of the arch was filled in with smaller arches meeting in ornamental pendants, a feature which is frequently found in seven­teenth-century Rostov architecture. The austere white surface of the upper tier of the square base provided a sharp contrast with the ornamental porch. It had slender triple semi-columns at the corners instead of pilaster strips, and a narrow cornice around the top. There was a staircase leading through the porch of the bell-tower to the gallery which contained the cathedral's deeply recessed portals of painted and carved white stone. The bell-tower did not possess the usual octagonal section that was so typical of Suzdal's bell-towers, and the bell-tier, also richly decorated, was placed directly on the tall square base. The parapet below the arches was embel­lished by the interplay of light and shade in deep niches lined with coloured tiles. The pillars between the arche repeated the motif of triple half-columns. Above the moulded curves of the arches rose a light tent-shaped spire with a small green tiled dome and three rows of tiny windows which served as resonators together with the open cavity of the spire.

The decoration of the cathedral walls was blended skilfully with that of the galleries and bell-tower.- the corners were also adorned with triple semi-columns and the large windows repeated the design of the small ones in the parvis, with surrounds of semi-columns and slightly flattened tops as if they were bending under the consoles of the broad kokoshnik frieze above them. Five magnificent domes crowned the cathedral. The tiered faceted drums with rounded kokoshniks on the bases, small, peaked pediments crowning the lower prisms, and intricately shaped two-tiered domes reflected the rhythm and form of the bell-tower. The dimensions of the roof decoration give an idea of its importance in the ensemble: the height from the edge of the roof to the top of the highest cross equalled the height of the upper floor of the main body of the cathedral.

We have already mentioned the similarity between the elaborate roof design of the Trinity Cathedral and that of the Emperor Constantine Church, which suggests that both were built by the same architects, Mamin, Gryaz-nov and Shmakov. The Trinity Cathedral was an exqui­site specimen of their work and was carefully studied by eighteenth-century Suzdal builders. To a large extent these three architects determined the unique character of Suzdalian architecture during the eighteenth century.

The tall convent bell-tower (1813-1819) built under the supervision of the Suzdal mason Kuzmin was spoilt at the beginning of the twentieth century by cement plastering which seems to drag down its soaring tiers that repeat the motif of the portico with pairs of columns gradually decreasing in size. When the bell-tower was restored it was repainted in the original colour scheme of yellow walls with white decoration.

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