The temple, with an area of 57 rai (22.8 acres), is located at Mu 5, Tambon Sanam Chai on Highway 340, 2 kilometres from Amphoe Mueang on the eastern bank of the Tha Chin River. The Northern Chronicle says that King Katae assigned his brother to build this temple and to renovate Wat Pa Lelai at the same time. Archaeologists presumed that the temple dates back before the year 1203. There is a big ruined octagonal pagoda surrounded by a wall with small pagodas at four points of the compass.

In 1961, the Fine Arts Department renovated the pagoda and found lots of relics and ashes inside. It is presumed that the pagoda was first built in the Dvaravati U Thong period, and then rebuilt in the Ayutthaya period.