Description of the attraction
The Church of the Resurrection of Christ is located in the town of Gorokhovets, Vladimir region. The date of construction and the author of the modern stone church are unknown. Presumably - this is 1700.
The church building is massive, two-story, rectangular in plan. The temple stands on a high basement. Three apses and a porch are below the central volume. The porch leads to the porch, which has massive tetrahedral pillars decorated with flys.
The central volume of the temple is completed with five chapters. The roof is hipped. The walls are crowned with a series of decorative kokoshniks, which are supported on a wide multi-profile cornice. Flat blades shape the corners of the main volumes. Window openings are arched. They are framed by a variety of platbands, which give the church grace and elegance.
The temple is pillarless, covered with a closed vault. The walls of the first floor are two meters thick.
The spatial composition of the building is stepped. The height of the volumes increases towards the middle part: the apse of the basement, the apse of the porch, the apse of the main volume, the volume itself and its completion. Only from the south, all the volumes of the building are made in a single horizontal plane. The first basement floor is separated from the second by a curb strip.
Once upon a time, the northern porch was on an open arcade with a corrugated vault, just like the porch on four open powerful pillars. The pillars of the porch are round, wide, characterized by squat, with original-shaped bases and capitals.
The basement windows are rectangular. They, like bow and arched windows of other volumes, are decorated with platbands of various shapes, which are based on a roller. Horizontal rods, kokoshniks, plinths, arcature belt of drums represent variations of the shapes created by the rollers. On the walls, the plastic pattern of the platbands is especially attractive.
From the side of the facades, the temple is whitewashed by grout. The roofs and heads are made of iron and painted green. The foundation is not visible. The plinth is marked with a roller and a ledge. The window frames are modern, made of wood, single. Decorative wrought iron figured lattices are not available on all windows. The porch staircase is made of wood. Several white stone steps survived at the entrance.
The temple floor is wooden. The walls up to the upper windows are covered with oil paint, above there is a whitewashed painting. The interior is spacious. The upper row of windows is located in arched niches with pronounced bevels downward, the lower row - in arched niches to the floor. In the porch, the floor is made of wood. The vault is corrugated, with sharp stripping over the entrances and windows. The porch hall is high, elongated from north to south. The windows are placed in high bow-shaped niches with a strip of stucco molding along the contour. All doors are wooden.
The apses are high, spacious, with striking and corrugated vaults over the windows. Three niches are arranged on the left side. The floor is made of wood. The walls are whitewashed for painting.
The basement floor is low, covered with a box vault with trays to the west and a stripping section. Window openings have very deep slopes. On the two south windows there is a grid in a cage. The basement door is old, double with a vestibule.
The Gorokhovets Church of the Resurrection of Christ is an example of a large five-domed on a developed basement with two-story porches of a pillarless one-part church without a refectory and a bell tower, typical for churches of a merchant settlement with features of cult and residential architecture of the 17th century.
