Gounsa Temple Three-story Stone Pagoda

This pagoda stands on the hillside south of Daeungjeon Hall at Gounsa Temple, its three-storey body raised on a two-tiered base. The lower base shows faint blind-niche (ansang) patterns, while the upper base is carved with pillar-shaped mouldings. The pagoda body narrows sharply from the second storey onward compared with the first, and pillar-shaped carvings mark each corner of the body stone at every level. The gently sloping roof stones show little upward curve at the four corners, with four tiers of eave supports beneath the first-storey roof stone and three tiers each beneath the second and third. At the top sits the finial: a noban (a flat, dish-shaped base stone), a bokbal (an upturned, bowl-shaped ornament), and an inverted anghwa (a fully-blossomed lotus-shaped ornament). Overall the stonework is considerably worn, particularly the lower base. The pagoda follows the general style of Unified Silla, but its reduced scale and the carving style of the roof stones suggest a somewhat later date, leading to the view that it is a work of the late Unified Silla period.

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Where it is

Region

Uiseong, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료