Chang Rong Si Bridge

The bridge's dog head sculpture.

Namesake intersection at the end of the bridge.

Chang Rong Si Bridge (Template:Lang-th) is a bridge and monument on a crossroads on Rattanakosin Island, Phra Borom. Maha Ratchawang sub-district, Phra Nakhon district, in central Bangkok. The bridge spans Khlong Khu Mueang Doem, the old city moat. It links Bamrung Mueang, Rachini with Atsadang roads, located on the end of Kanlayana Maitri road behind Ministry of Defense and opposite the Ministry of Interior. It signifies the start of Bamrung Mueang road.

Its name, Chang Rong Si, translates as "rice mill's elephants", due to leading war elephant troops into the inner city after the war in the early Rattanakosin period, to the nearby royal rice mill. It was originally a wooden bridge and resembled three ohter bridges that were later demolished.

The bridge was restored by chancellor of the interior Prince Damrong Rajanubhab in 1910. The end pieces feature sculptures of dogs' heads that symbolise the year of the dog in the Chinese zodiac.^[1]

Chang Rong Si was listed as a ancient monument of Bangkok in 1988.^[2]

References

^ Pinijnakorn (2009-02-23). "สามแพร่ง...ทางแยกแห่งทวิภพ". TPBS (in Thai).
^ "รายงานการศึกษาโบราณสถานที่ขึ้นทะเบียนในกรุงเทพมหานคร ปี พ.ศ.๒๕๕๔" (PDF). BMA (in Thai).

External links

"สะพานช้างโรงสี". Rattanakosin Island Information Center (in Thai).

13°45′04.54″N 100°29′47.03″E / 13.7512611°N 100.4963972°E / 13.7512611; 100.4963972

[1] Pinijnakorn (2009-02-23). "สามแพร่ง...ทางแยกแห่งทวิภพ". TPBS (in Thai).

[2] "รายงานการศึกษาโบราณสถานที่ขึ้นทะเบียนในกรุงเทพมหานคร ปี พ.ศ.๒๕๕๔" (PDF). BMA (in Thai).

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