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style="word-spacing: 0; line-height: 100%; margin-left: 50; margin-right: 50; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0" align="center"> style="word-spacing: 0; line-height: 100%; margin-left: 50; margin-right: 50; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0" align="center"> style="word-spacing: 0; line-height: 100%; margin-left: 50; margin-right: 50; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0" align="center"> style="word-spacing: 0; line-height: 100%; margin-left: 50; margin-right: 50; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0" align="center">Wat Sri Chum style="word-spacing: 0; line-height: 100%; margin-left: 50; margin-right: 50; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0" align="center"> style="word-spacing: 0; line-height: 100%; margin-left: 50; margin-right: 50; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> style="word-spacing: 0; line-height: 100%; margin-left: 50; margin-right: 50; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">The most important object in this temple is the Buddha image inside the Mondop, the walls of the mondop are 3 metres thick. The scholars believe that this Buddha image is Phra Atchana which means the unmoveable or the strengthen Buddha. Phra Atchana at Wat Sri Chum was built before 1292 which was the year that Pho Khun Ramkhamhaeng had the first stone inscription made. The width at the lap of this Buddha image is about 11.30 metres from knee to knee and its height is 15 metres to the very top. style="word-spacing: 0; line-height: 100%; margin-left: 50; margin-right: 50; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> style="word-spacing: 0; line-height: 100%; margin-left: 50; margin-right: 50; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">There is a passageway in the left inner wall itself which leads to the above crossbeam. On the ceiling of the passageway are more than fifty engraved slate slabs illustrating Jataka scenes. align="left" style="word-spacing: 0; line-height: 100%; margin-left: 50; margin-right: 50; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
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The
name “Sri Chum” was mentioned in the Ayutthaya chronicle.
This was the
oldest evidence of the name Rue-si Chum which was believed to be called slightly
different to Sri Chum. This was also the original legend of Phra Atchana, the
talking Buddha image. 
