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Santa Bárbara Mission Plat 1854Mission Santa Bárbara layout based on a plat made in 1854 by John G. Cleal of the U.S. Land Office. Plan of Mission Santa BárbaraPlan of Mission Santa Bárbara by Richard Rexford, 1925, from a print in the collection of the Santa Bárbara Missions Resource Center.
Following the layout typical of the missions, Santa Barbara continued to expand with the addition of outbuildings for agricultural and husbandry activities and, in 1798–1807, the construction of an “Indian village,” home to more than 1,700 baptized Indians or neophytes.
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Mission Santa Barbara (Spanish: Misión de Santa Bárbara) is a Spanish mission in Santa Barbara, California, United States.Often referred to as the 'Queen of the Missions', it was founded by Padre Fermín Lasuén for the Franciscan order on December 4, 1786, the feast day of Saint Barbara, as the tenth mission of what would later become 21 missions in Alta California.
For example, the widest inside dimensions of any of the mission buildings (at San Carlos, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz) is 29 feet (8.8 m): the narrowest, at Mission Soledad, spans 16.2 feet (4.9 m). The longest structure, at Mission Santa Barbara , stretches 162.5 feet (49.5 m). [12]
Architecture and Layout. The Fathers followed a regular plan for creating the layout of the mission buildings. Right after blessing the site the Fathers and the soldiers would start building a small building to hold the religious ceremonies, called a Mass. They would encourage local Natives to help them.
Download scientific diagram | Plan of Mission Santa Barbara with a detail of the central quadrangle and garden (from Rexford Newcomb, The Old Mission Churches and Historic Houses of...
Mission Santa Barbara Church. 1815–1820, Jose Antonio Ramirez, mason; 1831–1833 second bell tower; 1925–1927 bell towers rebuilt; 1950–1953 facade reconstruction. Northern terminus of Laguna St. Known as the Queen of the Missions, the Mission Santa Barbara Church bears an applied temple front masterfully executed by stonemason Jose ...
