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ArchitectureThe Principle Chedi Wat Chiang Nga Sangaram
This is a bell-shaped Chedi with indented sloping mouldings and a series of lotus bud. The bell element in a round plan is decorated with lotus pattern with a replica chedi at the top.
PaintingMural Painting Wat Thung Sri Meung
Mural paintings at this Phra Putthabhat hall were painted on the walls, the walls behind the doors and the columns. The paintings were painted in various stories including Vessanatara Jataka, Phra Malai and Buddha’s life. The walls behind the doors were painted with Pajittakumara Jataka, Julapata Jataka and Sin Chai. The columns were painted with Sin Chai stories, lotus bud and intertwined spray patterns. The painting techniques might have been influenced by the royal school of art in Bangkok. The techniques include patterns of the main characters, the palaces, and color status. However, there were also pictures of local folk life in the paintings.
ArchitectureIsaraphap Chedi Chanthaburi
This brick and cement Chedi is painted in white has a circumambulatory with a wall in a square plan. The wall is decorated with Chinese-style-craved tiles. There is a short wall supporting a bell-shaped element in a round plan. There is a lotus base, a series of three convex moldings, a lotus base with pointed mouldings, all of which are highly extended. Above this is the bell-shaped element, hamika, pillars, spire and finial.
ArchitectureNeun Wong Camp
Noen Wong Camp was made from soil by digging a moat around a large mound and constructed a laterite wall with boundary stones and arsenal holes around. The gate was made of bricks. The original gate was a wooden building with tiles above the gate. Such evidence can still be partly seen from the gate of Neun Wong Camp called “Tonsai gate” in the north. The fort in front of the camp, which was later restored is made of concrete and is of an octagonal shape.
SculpturePhra Buddha mahaloka phinantha patima
Phra Buddha mahaloka phinantha patima has a unique form of Buddha image that created in the reign of King Rama III, that is slim body, quite round, semi-oval face, small knot hair, flame halo, bent eyebrows, almond-eyed, curves mouth curves almost straight, puppet face, Urna supports the halo, squat in Subduing Mara pose, equal four fingers and wear oblique robe without streak.
ArchitectureLoha Prasat
Loha Prasat is three-storey brick and stucco building in a square plan with 37 metallic spires. It was drilled as niches from the foundation to the top. The main core used a large high log, whose trunk was punctured into a spiral staircase leading to the upstairs. Later, Loha Prasat was restored by using reinforced concrete.
