The Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in the village of Upper Bridge Photo: Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in the village of Upper Bridge

St. Nicholas Church is located at the Upper entrance to the village Bridge. In the old days this village was particularly large, and its highest economic development reached at the end of the 18th century. It is assumed that the Church of St. Nicholas was built in the 16th century. The first mention of it belong to 1684. According to tradition, the original Church was a single altar, and the temple bell tower was separate from the Church made of stone pillars. Only a chapel consecrated in the name of our lady, built in the early 18th century nobleman-a parishioner by the name of Bekleshev. During 1865 the old iconostasis and canopy were restored.

During 1882-1883, were carried out restoration work on the reconstruction of the temple after the fire had been completely eliminated all internal damage. In 1903 was pulled close and the old chapel, and continued in 1907-1908, by the parishioners was built warm stone chapel, consecrated in the name of the mother of God "the Sign".

Planning structure of the Church changed significantly at the end of the 18th century, although it remained the same for all traditional Pskov temple buildings, presented by the quadrangle and the Western part of him, the bell tower and the porch. Volume-spatial composition of St. Nicholas Church is a bit elongated towards the South side of the parallelepiped is represented by a double-height chapel, erected to the top of the quadrangle that links the entire complex and the Church looks full uniform. Vertical guide bell tower is not replaced by a light drum relating to the quadrangle, which once had been expanded to the southern part, was quite small for the purpose of discharging the horizontal composition.

The Church of St. Nicholas is a three-apse, chetyrehstolpnyj the temple with the defining designs presented vaults without transverse arches. In this case, the drum is available on the arches overlap of the quadrangle. Located on the West side pillars are circular, with a height as tall as a man. In one corner of the choir is the side Sergeev tent or the Church. A doorway in the South wall there and leads into the South aisle. In the North wall is a doorway, over which is provided a window opening. Existing openings of the altar and the North wall Rusticana, and in the altar only one window Rusticana.

The decoration of the facades of the Church of St. Nicholas has a distinctive and traditional look for the most number of religious buildings of medieval Pskov. Each of the existing facades is split into four blades into several parts, and the blades are interconnected using a two-bladed creeping small arches. On the façade facing the North side, hanging two icons in nishke. Half cylinder altar apse is decorated with the roll divorce, as well as a belt, which consists of curbs and bagunca. On both sides of the door on the West facade, are semi-circular pillars.

The decor of the drum is made in the form of traditional geometric ornament; wedding reel - in the form of arches belt. Immediately above the Windows has the edge, made in the form of frontoviki. The coating drum is made of galvanized sheet iron around the perimeter of the vault. Church, the head has a helmet-like shape in the fracture. Base metal four-pointed cross embellished with a small drum.

In 1880 the school has been opened at the Church if the activity of the priest Luchansky, where he studied 57 children. In October 1910 at the distance of three versts from the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker appeared Zemstvo Ladovsky the school in which enrolled 28 students. Over the years 1911-1917 by the Church priest was Nadareski Vasily, soon thereafter, was sentenced to death.

To date, all of the Church's Annex building have come down to us almost unchanged, except for the bell tower, which was demolished to the ground floor. Not so long ago the head of the drum of the quadrangle was covered with roofing iron, after which it was replaced on the roof with wooden eaves.

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