Wat Mahathat was registered as an ancient monument by the Fine Arts Department in 1935. The round bell shaped chedi contains a repository once housing votive tablets of various aspects which were later smuggled away. In the front is a building known as Wihan Kao Hong, a viharn with nine cells. At the back stands an ordination hall or Phra Ubosot surrounded by double sets of Bai Sema or boundary markers. The excavation of the viharn by the Fine Arts Department in 1991 indicated an overlapping construction of two periods, Sukhothai and Ayutthaya. Within the surrounding area there are ruins of boundary walls and chedis.

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