A canal-side ordination hall from B.E. 2441 with garuda-and-naga stucco on its gables, granite boundary stones, and four little timber landing pavilions at the water.
วัดนครเนื่องเขต · Wat Nakhon Nueang Khet
By the BAANLYY Editorial Team · Last checked 30 October 2026
| Official name | วัดนครเนื่องเขต — Wat Nakhon Nueang Khet |
|---|---|
| Where | Wang Takhian, Mueang Chachoengsao, Chachoengsao |
| Royal temple class | Not established from an official register. |
| Monastic order | Not recorded in any register we could read. |
| Ancient monument | Registered national ancient monument Royal Gazette vol. 118, special part 124 ng, p. 4, 17 December B.E. 2544, item 4 Registered with 5 rai 28 sq wa of monument ground under section 7 of the Ancient Monuments Act B.E. 2504. The instrument covers Chonburi, Rayong, Chachoengsao and Nakhon Nayok; item 3 is Wat Sawang Arom at Sala Daeng, also in this province, and item 6 is Wat Ban Khai in Rayong, which the Rayong run of this guide read off the same page in October 2026 and recorded at 5 rai 33 sq wa. |
| Coordinates | 13.729383, 101.047713 Fine Arts Department national monument register, monument 0000842; checked against the register's subdistrict polygon layer, which returns Wang Takhian (240111), the subdistrict the B.E. 2544 gazette instrument itself names |
Thai temple histories mix two different kinds of statement, and this guide keeps them apart. What a register, a gazette entry, an inscription or a dated royal act shows is one thing. What the chronicles and the temple itself hold is another, and it is worth telling as what it is.
The register dates the building, not the monastery. Nothing read in this run states when a monastery was first established on this ground, and the B.E. 2441 date belongs to the ordination hall that still stands.
The Fine Arts Department does not often describe a building in the detail it gives this one, and the description is the reason the monastery is worth a visit rather than a mention. The old ordination hall went up in B.E. 2441 and was restored in B.E. 2472. It is brick and stucco on a rectangular plan with a colonnade running right round it, under a tiered gabled timber roof with fired clay tiles. Both gables are decorated: the upper register with thep phanom figures in homage and foliate scrollwork, the lower with stucco set with colored tile in the form of garuda seizing naga, and kinnari.
The walls sit on a lotus base. There are doors front and back under stucco arches of the sort called na nang, and the timber door panels are carved with flower-vase motifs and painted. Between the front doors, set into the middle of the wall, is a marble tablet recording the building history — a dated primary document on the outside of the building, which is why this record has a record half and does not need a chronicle.
Around the hall stand the boundary stone shelters, brick and stucco in mondop form, with the boundary stones themselves cut from granite rather than the more usual sandstone or slate. There are minor chedi in the compound built in the redented twelve-cornered style, their bells carried round with a decorative band. At the water there are four small square timber pavilions with tiled gabled roofs; some of their gables are fretted, and some are carved, lacquered, gilded and set with mirror glass.
The department's condition note is unusually specific about what is going wrong and why, and it is worth reading before you go. The building was restored in B.E. 2521 and is in reasonable shape overall, but the ring of timber posts carrying the third roof tier is rotting from water standing after rain, the surrounding paving is cracked, the hall walls have cracks in places that are not yet dangerous, and the rear gable has algae and fungus staining the painted work — which the department names as the thing that will cause the next round of damage.
The old ordination hall of B.E. 2441: brick and stucco, rectangular, with a colonnade all the way round under a tiered gabled roof of fired clay tiles.
The gables, front and back — thep phanom and foliate scrollwork above, garuda seizing naga and kinnari in stucco set with colored tile below.
The marble tablet set into the front wall between the two doors, which records the building history of the hall.
The boundary stone shelters in mondop form around the hall, with the boundary stones themselves cut from granite.
Four small square timber pavilions at the landing, tiled and gabled, some with fretted gables and some carved, lacquered, gilded and set with mirror glass.
This is a working place of worship for millions of people rather than an attraction, and it is treated as one at the gate. Where a figure below is blank, no source we are prepared to cite states it.
| Hours | Not established from an official source. |
|---|---|
| Admission | Not established from an official source. |
| Dress | A working monastery. Shoulders and knees covered, shoes off at the hall door. |
| Photography | No source we found states a rule, so we print none. |
| Getting there | Wang Takhian subdistrict, Mueang Chachoengsao, on the canal about 8 km north-west of the town center. The four landing pavilions are a reminder that the canal, not the road, was the way in. |
Every temple reference repeats claims nobody has checked. These are the ones we went looking for and could not stand up, listed so you know exactly where this page stops.
The Fine Arts Department register dates it to B.E. 2441 and records a restoration in B.E. 2472 and another in B.E. 2521. The hall carries its own building history on a marble tablet set into the front wall between the doors.
Ton tan is the sugar palm, and that is the older local name for the place. The formal name is the one in the gazette instrument and the register; the palm-tree name is the one the canal neighborhood has always used.
Three things the register picks out: stucco gables set with colored tile showing garuda seizing naga and kinnari, boundary stones cut from granite rather than the usual sandstone, and four small carved timber landing pavilions at the water, some gilded and set with mirror glass.
Yes. It was registered with a determined land boundary of 5 rai 28 sq wa in the Royal Gazette of 17 December B.E. 2544, under section 7 of the Ancient Monuments Act B.E. 2504.
Reasonable but with named problems. The department records the ring of timber posts under the third roof tier as rotting from standing rainwater, the surrounding paving as cracked, minor cracks in the hall walls that are not yet dangerous, and algae and fungus staining the rear gable.
Before you go, read the guide to Buddhism and temple etiquette in Thailand — dress, footwear, where photography is not welcome and how to behave around monks. The rest of Chachoengsao’s temples are covered here too.
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Last checked 30 October 2026
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