Seongju Chuwondang Hall

Chuwondang stands about 1.5 km along the county road running from Chojeon-myeon to Byeokjin-myeon. It was first built in 1656, the seventh year of King Hyojong, as a clan ritual hall (munjung jaesa) raised for the ancestral rites (myoje) of several forebears of the Yaseong Song clan. These include Song Gu (Governor of Gyeonggi Province), the clan's founding ancestor to settle in Seongju, together with Song Gil-chang (Lord of Yaseong), Song Cheon-u (Pangyeolsa, a senior judicial official), Song Su-gyeom (a county magistrate) and Song So (Jikjang, a minor court official). The complex comprises a lecture hall, residential quarters, a management house and a caretaker's house. The central lecture hall is a single-row, double-depth building four bays wide and two bays deep, its plan of the "central hall with flanking rooms" type: the two central bays form a daecheong (wooden-floored hall), with ondol-heated rooms to either side. The gate quarters, three bays wide and one bay deep, is a tile-roofed building with a gable (matbae) roof, its plan placing ondol rooms on either side of the central gateway. The building was relocated to its present site in its original form in 2005 because of the construction of an expressway. Overall it retains the traditional architectural style of the late 17th century, and the distinctive feature of the building is its roof, formed in the shape of the Chinese character 工.

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Seongju, Gyeongbuk

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Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료