Cheongdo Deogyang-dong Three-story Stone Pagoda

This pagoda had fallen over on a hillside near Deogyang Village, and was moved and re-erected on its present site by villagers in 1972. The base, which supports the weight of the whole structure, is now a single storey, but it is believed to have originally had two storeys, above which a three-storey body was built up. The four faces of the base and the body stones of each storey are carved only with pilasters imitating columns at the corners, with no other ornamentation. The roof stones covering the body stone of each storey have four-stepped eave supports on their undersides. Overall the pagoda gives a light impression; apart from the fact that the corner pilasters on the base are carved only at the corners, and not at the centre of each face, it generally follows the style of Unified Silla stone pagodas closely, and is therefore presumed to be a work of that period.

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Where it is

Region

Cheongdo, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산