The original pagoda that stood at the site of the Lingxiao Pagoda, a Chinese pagoda west of the Xinglong Temple in Zhengding, Hebei Province, China, dubbed the Wooden Pagoda, had been built in 860 during the Tang Dynasty.

The pagoda's present form of brick and wood dates to 1045 during the reign of Emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty.

The brick base and structure of the forty-two meter (one hundred and thirty-seven feet) tall pagoda ends after the fourth floor, as the rest of its height from the fifth floor up is purely wooden construction.

It features a total of nine stories with nine wooden tiers of eaves encircling the octagonal frame of the pagoda.

In the center of the pagoda stands a large column, a feature of Chinese architecture in pagodas that will be discontinued sometime after the Song and Yuan periods.