AYUTTHAYA HISTORICAL RESEARCH



WAT NOINA





Wat Noina, or the Monastery of the Custard Apple, is a not restored ruin located off the city island in the southern area of Ayutthaya in the Samphao Lom Sub-district (1).


Wat Noina was situated west of Khu Cham (2) and south of the Chao Phraya River, just southeast of Wat Phutthaisawan. Wat Tamnak and Wat Tawet were located south of it.


The site lies within a village community, which uses the site for farming purposes.


In situ is a brick mound with fragmented Buddha statues. Part of the wall foundations still can be seen.


Its historical background and period of construction are unknown.


The remnants of Wat Noina are in geographical coordinates: 14° 20' 19.07" N, 100° 33' 43.20" E.





(View of the site of Wat Noina in 2009 CE)



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) Khu Cham, or the Cham Moat, is an existent canal situated off the city island in the southern area of Ayutthaya, running through the Samphao Lom and Khlong Takhian sub-districts. The canal splits off from the present Chao Phraya River about 500 meters east of Wat Phutthaisawan and runs south to join Khlong Takhian, nearly at the latter’s confluence with the Chao Phraya River.



Selected PICTURES



Pictures taken February 2009 CE



Selected PICTURES



Pictures taken October 2019 CE



MAPS



Map 1 - Detail of a 1993 CE Fine Arts Department map. Courtesy Khun Supot Prommanot, Director of the 3rd Regional Office of Fine Arts.
Map 2 - Detail of a 2007 CE Fine Arts Department GIS map. Courtesy of the Fine Arts Department 3rd Region.
Map 3 - Google Earth.



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