Laem Suwannaram Temple

Terrain

General Condition

The condition of the area is a river estuary. The present condition is generally a city. And industrial sites Laem Suwannaram Temple is located on the Tha Chin River, the area of ​​which is the pig stomach water dungeon. of Tha Chalom Subdistrict The general environment is a city in the north, next to the Tha Chin River. south, next to the canal of sugar cane East, next to the public canal The west is adjacent to the railway land.

The present condition of the Uthosathod that is an ancient site Currently, it has been changed by raising the floor around the outer courtyard of the chapel and the floor of the chapel to be higher, the balcony floor and the floor inside the chapel have been renovated. But still keep the original tile floor to see in some areas such as balcony in front of the temple The floor inside the ubosot in front of the principal Buddha image In addition, the wooden building walls and windows were repaired by repainting. (The Fine Arts Office No. 1, Ratchaburi 2010)

Height above mean sea level

Waterway

Tha Chin River

Geological conditions

Clay sediments from the tidal plains to the present on the Holocene marine clay sediments (Department of Mineral Resources 2016)

Archaeological Era

era/culture

Archaeological age

Types of archaeological sites

archaeological essence

Laem Suwannaram Temple It is a royal temple under the Maha Nikaya Sangha. Located on the Tha Chin River The area that is the gorge of the pork stomach in Tha Chalom Subdistrict Mueang Samut Sakhon District was established in 1826 and was bestowed upon Wisung Kham Sima in 1879. (Buddhist Division 2002) Important ancient sites within the temple are Wooden ubosot

Wooden Ubosot (The Fine Arts Office No. 1, Ratchaburi, 2010) Ratchaburi is a five-room Thai-style building, a wooden building painted in soft yellow, with a low-level brick base on the lowest floor. There are stairs leading up from the side. The shingle roof has a canopy eaves and canopy eaves supported by round wooden poles surrounding the beautifully decorated bouquet of swan's tail leaves in the shape of a dragon. Decorated with tiles in the Chinese art style, the pediment is folded in a double-sided triangular frame in the middle, depicting an angel on a three-headed elephant.

The Ubosot building is a wooden building painted in clay yellow, consisting of a lower wall made of a Patt base. (consisting of lotus inverted, wooden bottom, lotus wire and lotus facing) The upper part is stacked with wooden lids. There are stairs and entrance doors to the chapel in the front. 2 doors inside the ubosot enshrine 3 Buddha images in the subduing Mara posture, enshrined in descending order. These include the Buddha images of Luang Pu Saen Suk (Phra Prathan), Luang Pho Chiang Saen, and Luang Pho Dam, whose amulets are black and originally wooden. But now it is covered with cement.

At the side walls inside the chapel are round wooden pillars supporting the roof and between each pillar make a window opening. The floor inside the chapel is covered with blue and white patterned tiles.

The walls of this chapel have a special feature. The area between the window openings on the outside of the building It is decorated with a stucco Buddha statue sitting in the attitude of subduing Mara on a stucco lotus base. painted with gold In front of the lotus base, there is a girdle hung down. Most of the Buddha images have been plastered, repaired, and additionally painted. Most of the robes and sacristy's edges are decorated with a rosary-like pattern flanking either side of a rectangle or rhombus, with an asterisk-like interior scratching.

(Previously, the Buddha image that adorned the exterior wall of the building It will be painted in bright colors, and the base of the cement lotus is red-white-blue. or the face, the body, the Ketumala, including the color of the robe and the color of the Sangkhati will be different According to each repair, for example, some Buddha images are white. some are yellow Some had yellow robes. The assassin was red. Some had red robes with yellow or white sangha robes, which, considering the robe and mouth painting, were likely influenced by the craftsmen involved in making these stucco statues. Buddha images in Burmese style or Mon style that often make a Buddha image with a red mouth. and wearing red robes according to the Mon-Burmese style)

But there is one special feature. bronze buddha with gold gilding and stamped paint sitting on a lotus base “China used Mae Tom to build it in the Sasarn.” In addition, at the edge of the nectar of some Buddha images, there is a message written in Chinese characters.

In addition, the outer walls of the chapel are decorated with window arches and door arches with stucco patterns and painted in yellow, orange, red and blue colors. lotus wire Make a horizontal hexagonal pattern flanking the top and bottom of the rows of four-petaled flower motifs. The central columnar area breaks the peduncle into a vertically arranged four-petal flower with a connecting stalk in each flower.

The area above the door frame is decorated with four-petal flower patterns and a grille pattern arranged next to each other in the middle is a decorative arch similar to the elegant gable of the gable with a bouquet of swan's tail leaves in the shape of a dragon's head in the middle, made into a stucco Buddha statue sitting on it. The lotus in the middle of the lotus pond with lotus buds, lotus blossoms and lotus leaves. The corridors surrounding the chapel have wooden balustrades connected in line with the pillars supporting the eaves. Some of the decking has been repaired. But still sharp, there are some original ground at the entrance and exit of the temple in front, covered with red-yellow-white tiles in a circle, connected to each other as a set. The side floors are laid with red and white hexagonal tiles connected to each other like a honeycomb.

Outside the chapel, there is a small parapet enshrining a parapet inside. painted white and gold In the middle of the parapet, there is a Chakra painted red.

The other Senasana buildings of the temple Consisting of a pavilion, 9 meters wide, 16 meters long, built in 1967, is a Thai-style wooden building, a prayer hall, 8.50 meters wide, 13.50 meters long, built in 1959. It is a wooden building, 10 monks, half buildings and half buildings. wood 5 pavilion for merit making, 1 dormitory, 2 kitchens, 1 storage shed and 1 Phrapariyattithhamma School.