Wat Phra Prang Sam Yot

Wat Phra Prang Sam Yot in Wichayen Road - the "temple of the three towers" - is probably the town's finest ruin. A classic example of Lopburi architecture, it has three prangs, joined together, each on a cruciform base with doorways on each side and connected by what was once a covered walkway with a long brick building that was faced with stucco. Plenty of its remains are still visible, such as pieces of decoration and the grotesque faces on a corner of the base wall. Console vaulting appears in the rooms and the towers, and in the interior there are some fragments of old Buddhas and the well-preserved figure of a seated Buddha from the Sukhothai period. Originally it was presumably a Hindu temple, with the three prangs symbolizing Vishnu, Shiva and Brahma, and only later converted to a Buddhist wat.