Seven-story Stone Pagoda at Cheongoksa Temple Site, Jeongeup

Basic information

Designation

Treasure No.309

Category

Sites & Pagodas

Era

고려시대

Designated year

1963

Location

정읍시, 전북특별자치도— 전북 정읍시 망제동 산9-2번지

Coordinates

35.614532, 126.825861

Cheongoksa Temple was built by a religious leader named Jajang during the reign of Queen Seondeok of Silla. Suffering from a skin disease, Queen Seondeok ordered him to build the temple and called it Cheongoksa, as she cured her disease with the mineral water from under Cheonggongnyeong Pass. Only a sanctum and Yosachae Hall, the residence of monks or nuns, now remain, and the history of this site since its foundation is unknown. This pagoda was built at the base of a mountain in the west of Mangje-dong called Cheongoksa Temple Site. The present location and structure seem to form a circle. The 7.5 meters high pagoda and the base that supports it look very simple. The main stone of the first story is a large, four-tiled stone. There are two stones for the second and the third stories and one for the fourth story. Each roof stone was made of one stone, almost leveled, with lotus patterns sculpted on the bottom. At the top of the pagoda, only the base of the finial now remains. It is unusual that the lotus design is engraved in the bottom of the roof stones. Although the stones in each part were loosely arranged, this structure is important to the study of unusual stone pagodas. Judging from the style and the simple carving technique, it is assumed to have been built in the Goryeo Dynasty.

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