Wat Noi, or the Little Monastery, was located off the city island in the southern area of Ayutthaya in the Samphao Lom Sub-district (1).
The temple was situated south of Wat Kuti and southwest of Wat Bang Kraja in Bang Kraja area (2).
There are no traces of the monastery anymore above ground level.
The site is not indicated on a 19th-century map but is mentioned on Phraya Boran Ratchathanin's map drafted in 1926 CE. Phraya Boran (1871-1936 CE) was the Superintendent Commissioner of Monthon Ayutthaya from 1925 to 1929 CE but occupied important functions since 1896 CE in Monthon Ayutthaya.
Based on the 2007 CE Fine Arts Department (FAD) map, the site was in geographical coordinates: 14° 20' 36.22" N, 100° 34' 24.90" E.
The monastery's historical background and period of construction are unknown.
Footnotes:
(1) Sub-district called after the village Ban Samphao Lom near the Chao Phraya River. The village is on the Monthon Krung Kao map (1916 CE). John Bowring (1857, London, John W. Parker and Son, West Strand), in his book ‘The Kingdom and People of Siam’, wrote: "Between the modern and the ancient capital, Bangkok and Ayuthia, is a village called the “Sunken Ship,” the houses being erected round a mast which towers above the surface at low water."
(2) Bang (บาง) is a village on a river bank.
