Clock-tower, Velikiy Novgorod Detinets, Clock tower in the Detinets, Veliky Novgorod, Russia

The Chasozvonya is a tall white bell tower in the northwest part of the Novgorod Detinets. Its square lower shaft has a clock face and narrow recessed panels; above sits a rounded octagonal tier with small arched openings, a silver-grey dome and a golden cross. A low white building with a grey roof adjoins its base, and a yellow building stands beside that.

The present tower was built in 1673 for Novgorod Metropolitan Ioakim; its architect and craftsmen are unknown. Long attributed to Archbishop Evfimy II and dated 1443, that earlier stone watchtower actually stood between the Mitropolichya and Fyodorovskaya towers until 1671. The upper part was rebuilt in the first half of the 19th century, destroyed in the Second World War, and restored in the 1970s to its pre-19th-century form.

The tower's four clock faces, roughly aligned to the cardinal points, are driven by a single mechanism. Until recently a bell cast in 1647, weighing 60 poods, struck every hour and half hour. The tower is also called the Evfimyevskaya clock tower after Archbishop Evfimy II, though research places his 1443 stone watchtower elsewhere in the Detinets.

The tower stands in the north-western part of the Novgorod Detinets. A semicircular passage arch runs beneath it, leading to the Fyodorovskaya and Mitropolichya towers. The building leans noticeably to the north-west, and its four clock faces are set roughly to the cardinal points.

The tower leans noticeably to the northwest, and it is the tallest structure in the Novgorod Detinets. A semicircular passage arch runs beneath it, leading to the Fyodorovskaya and Mitropolichya towers. Four dials near the top, roughly facing the cardinal directions, are driven by one clock mechanism.