Wat Phai Lom Lek, or the small Monastery surrounded by Bamboo, was located off the city island in the southern area of Ayutthaya in the Samphao Lom Sub-district (1).
The monastery was situated west of Wat Tawet and Wat Tama on the west side of Khu Cham (2).
There are no traces of the monastery above ground level.
Historical data about the monastery and its construction are unknown.
The site is not indicated on a 19th-century map, nor Phraya Boran Ratchathanin's map drafted in 1926 CE and features only on a 1974 CE Fine Arts Department map.
Wat Phai Lom Lek must have been located in the approximative geographical coordinates: 14° 20' 9.84" N, 100° 33' 43.84" E.
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.
