A cruciform bath was built in the baptistery – piscina during the second stage of construction. Another room with stone benches (room for catechumen) was added to the west in front of the baptistery. A small chapel of approximately the same size and shape was attached mirroring the baptistery from the south of the basilica.
There were entrances to the baptistery and the chapel from the nave. According to its basic plan - a single-nave nave with side rooms attached to it, the church at Ochin Dol finds a parallel in the churches of the village of Lyubenovo (Haskovo region), the village of Isperihovo (Bratsigov region), the village of Kamenitsa (Pirdop region), church No. 1 in Montana (early 4th-5th centuries). The building of the church in Ochin Dol can be generally attributed to the 5th century because of its architectural features (a single-nave elongated nave with a wide semicircular apse, a single-part narthex) and the decorative elements. The noted reconstructions related to the improvement of the baptistery were most likely carried out in the first half or middle of the 6th century. According to historical data, these constructions can be generally attributed to the reign of Justinian I (527-565), when mass baptism of pagans began and when additional baptisteries were built in many places to the already existing churches. A necropolis arose near the southeast chapel of the church building during the medieval period. From the location of the graves (around the apse of the chapel) it can be concluded that at the time of the necropolis' emergence, the remains of the church building were still visible above the terrain. The discovered ornaments (head jewelry, four metal and three glass bracelets and two earring) date from the 12th-13th centuries. A Thracian mound necropolis was also discovered on the southeast side of the church. A Roman coin dating from the 2nd century was found, minted in Philippopolis (Antoninus Pius (138-161)). It is noteworthy that the church was built on the Thracian necropolis without affecting the pagan structures. The eastern part of the church was severely damaged during the laying of a water pipe. The excavated earth masses from the Thracian necropolis were piled on top of the remains. In the immediate vicinity of the church, on the southern side, there were three tomb mounds. They are located in a straight line, about 20 meters apart. The locals call them "the three lumps". These lumps were about 12 meters in diameter at the base and three meters high. The first was destroyed in the early 1970s during the construction of a sports field. The second was levelled a little later during the laying of a road. During the destruction of the two mounds, copper coins, a bronze ring and fragments of clay vessels were found. The third "lump", the southernmost, is still preserved.
Today, the foundation of early Christian basilica is well restored and preserved. The path to the Parshevitsa chalet passes by the church.
The early Christian basilica is located on the highest point in the village of Ochin Dol, in the Presvetitsa area. The foundations of the temple were discovered during excavations for the construction of a chapel. In 2002, archaeologists Spas Mashov and Georgi Ganetsovski from the Regional History Museum - Vratsa and Krasimira Luka from the city of Sofia conducted rescue archaeological research at the site.
The excavations revealed a church from the early Christian period. The church is a basilica with a narthex. Two periods of construction have been established. Initially, the temple consisted of the main room (naos), anteroom-narthex and a baptismal font. The narthex has walls 1.00 m thick. The naos has a rectangular elongated shape with wall thicknesses of 0.60 m and internal dimensions of 11.64 m x 5.40 m. To the east, it ends with a large, semicircular apse, 3.50 m wide. The technique of building the walls is “opus emplectum” – each side of the wall is constructed with hewn blocks of stone and the interior of the wall is filled with small crushed stones bonded with white mortar. On the walls of the nave, crushed bricks were added to the mortar, which gives it additional strength. The walls have been preserved up to 1.20 m in height. The roof was covered with ceramic tiles. Judging by the size of the church, it can certainly be said that the village of Ochin Dol was the center of the region. The small rectangular baptismal room with an apse has a separate entrance and is attached to the northern wall of the main building.
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