The brick church with a northern chapel dedicated to Macarius of Unzha was built in the early 18th century, presumably in 1720. It is possible that parts of the cathedral church, which stood here from 1619 to 1620 and was erected by local townspeople in honor of the victory over Polish-Lithuanian invaders, were incorporated into its structure. This was evidenced by an inscription that previously existed on the wall of the monument. In 1810, a bell tower was added to the church, and probably at the same time a two-pillar refectory was built. In 1813, the northern chapel was dismantled due to dilapidation, and a narthex was added to the west of the refectory, which ends at the southern side of the tiered bell tower. In the first half of the 19th century, a small chapel-narthex was made at the southern wall of the main square.

In the 1930s and 1940s, the upper tiers of the bell tower were destroyed, and the bulbous domes of the church were lost. In 1955, elements from the dismantled Annunciation Church in Yuryevets, including the portal and a triple window, were embedded into the lower tier of the bell tower from the eastern side, and a tile cornice and frame were added to the western wall of the bell tower's narthex. Fragments of two window frames from the Resurrection Church in Puchesh were also included in the bell tower, which was also dismantled. All volumes were whitewashed over the brick. This is one of the most expressive monuments in the city with a unique volumetric-planning structure and original decor in the Naryshkin Baroque style. The artistic value of the building increases due to the unique details of brick and tile ornamentation from the lost churches of the region. The free arrangement of volumes creates a picturesque spatial composition. A high two-light square dominates with blind cylindrical drums of the five-domed structure above the hipped roof. The low three-petaled apse in the width of the square is topped with a shaped roof. The refectory continues the line of the main northern facade and protrudes significantly from the southern side, where the chapel is located, the semicircular apse of which adjoins the southwestern corner of the main volume. A gallery-narthex runs along the entire western wall of the refectory, connected to the lower tier of the bell tower. The bell tower is significantly shifted south relative to the refectory, adjoining its southwestern corner and reinforced with buttresses. The low rectangular southern narthex of the square is topped with a roof, the profile of which is close to that of the apse.

The decor, traditional for the 17th century, is quite diverse. The rectangular windows of the upper light of the square are framed with Naryshkin-style frames. On the northern facade of the lower tier, there was a window with a triangular pediment and a portal with a keel-shaped archivolt, both openings are bricked up, and a new one has been made. On the southern facade, the frame has a keel-shaped elevation, and to the east of the window is a rectangular strip-kiot. Wide corner pilasters form the corbeling of the cornice. Two more such corbelings divide the cornice into three equal parts. Above is a tier of three kokoshniks with a flattened springy shape. The openings of the apse are topped with pediments, and at the junctions of the semicircles stand three-quarter columns. The windows on the facades of the refectory and chapel are also decorated with columns and pediments. The new frame of the southern window of the chapel apse is adorned with colored tiles with a braid around the perimeter of the opening, and at the top of the opening, there is a composition of six tiles depicting a lion and a unicorn on either side of a vase with flowers.