The bell tower was built between 1893 and 1901 according to the design of architect A.N. Nikitin. This five-tiered structure stands 72 meters tall, surrounded on the south and north by three-story buildings. All tiers of the bell tower are square in shape, except for the fifth, which is designed as an octagon. The top of the bell tower was adorned with a dome featuring eight slopes and a small cupola on a faceted drum. The facade composition of the building is based on an order system, giving it a classical appearance. The arched passage on the first tier leads to the square in front of the Trinity Cathedral, located 55 meters east of the bell tower. The decor of the lower tiers of the bell tower echoes that of the main church of the monastery: the lower part is divided by an entablature, the walls are decorated with half-columns, and finished with triangular pediments featuring round windows in the tympana. The upper tiers are adorned with sculpted bas-reliefs depicting the Mother of God "Tenderness," Saint George the Victorious, and a Cherub. Bells were placed on the third and fourth tiers, the largest of which weighed 500 poods and was donated by the Rukavishnikov brothers. In the arches of the fifth tier, an unknown benefactor installed a clock that chimed every 15 minutes, proclaiming "Holy Mother of God, save us!"

During the Soviet period, the bell tower lost its completion, and a relay dish was installed in place of the dome with the cupola. In 1993, the monastery restored the completion, but without approved project documentation and with deviations from the historical appearance.

Scientific research and design work were conducted in July-August 2012. For the graphic reconstruction of the lost completion, archival photographs from the early 20th century were used, in which the bell tower is captured in the panorama of the monastery. Although the clarity of the images was low due to the distance of the shot, one of the photographs by M.P. Dmitriev from 1904, found in the Archive of Audiovisual Documentation of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, allowed for a sufficiently clear image of the bell tower's completion to be obtained through digital enlargement. Based on this photograph, a graphic construction of the dome and cupola was created. Thanks to the remote shooting point, the bell tower is depicted almost without perspective distortion, which allowed for the precise determination of the geometric parameters of the lost parts of the monument.