Wat Wihan Khian, or the Monastery of the Sermon Hall of Writing, is located off the city island in the southern area of Ayutthaya, in the Samphao Lom Sub-district (1).
The defunct monastery was situated just south of Wat Khok Sung.
In situ is a mound covered in dense vegetation.
There were no traces of any brickwork seen.
Its historical background and period of construction are unknown.
The monastery is mentioned on Phraya Boran Ratchathanin's map drafted in 1926 CE and on Fine Arts Department maps since 1974 CE.
The site is in geographical coordinates: 14° 20' 31.04" N, 100° 33' 58.40" 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."
