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Old Mission Church. It is 160 feet long by sixty in width - its walls are eighty feet in thickness. The height the nave is forty feet. On the wall to the right hangs a picture representing a king and a monk up to their middle in the flames of purgatory. On the other side is a picture of hell. Immediately before the altar is a trapdoor opening into the vaults where are buried the missionary padres. Over the altar are many rich images of the saints. Three silver candlesticks five feet high and a silver crucifix of the same height with a golden image of the Savior suspended on it stand within the church. A door in the eastern wall leads to the cemetery

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Title: Old Mission Church. It is 160 feet long by sixty in width - its walls are eighty feet in thickness. The height the nave is forty feet. On the wall to the right hangs a picture representing a king and a monk up to their middle in the flames of purgatory. On the other side is a picture of hell. Immediately before the altar is a trapdoor opening into the vaults where are buried the missionary padres. Over the altar are many rich images of the saints. Three silver candlesticks five feet high and a silver crucifix of the same height with a golden image of the Savior suspended on it stand within the church. A door in the eastern wall leads to the cemetery
Publication Information: The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Santa Barbara Views, ca. 1875
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Type: image
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf0s2005hw
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