Scroll Tower of the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery
Russia, Vologda region, Kirillov district, Kirillov city, Kirillo-Belozersky monastery
Description:
The Scroll Tower is one of the towers of the Assumption Monastery located in the Kirillo-Belozersk Monastery Ensemble. It is located in the southwest of the monastery fence. It goes to Lake Sivers. It was built in the XVI century, in 1591, preserved in its original form. But now it needs reconstruction.
The tower has a rectangular shape, 9.5 by 8.7 meters it is three-storey. The name "scroll" tower got from the word "scrolls". Scrolls in ancient times called clothes, in the tower lived servants, washing and putting in order the monastery clothes. But the tower, as built into the monastery fence, carried a security service - since the XVIII century it had two guns.
In the XVIII century, the tower was recognized as dilapidated, but it was able to stand almost until the XX century. In 1920, the Scroll Tower was repaired, which made it possible to keep the Scroll Tower.