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San Antonio de Pala Asistencia & Uses of Local Stone
(Today known as Mission San Antonio de Pala)

Exterior & Bell Tower

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Below is an excerpt from the Wikipedia article “San Antonio de Pala Asistencia” section on Wikipedia.  Peggy B. Perazzo

“On Christmas Day, 1899 the San Jacinto Earthquake shook the Pala Valley, causing the rook over the church sanctuary to collapse.  In 1902, a group calling itself the ‘Landmarks Club of Southern California,’ under the direction of American journalist, historian, and photographer Charles Fletcher Lummis, purchased Pala Mission. The following year, the Club returned ownership to the Catholic Church....”

“...In 1948 the Verona Fathers (Sons of the Sacred Heart) succeeded the Franciscans in the care of the Mission.  Six years later, the fathers undertook a complete restoration of the Mission....”

“...Pala’s bells are the same ones used since 1916.  American academician, architect, and author Rexford Newcomb published design studies of the original bell tower in his 1916 work The Franciscan Mission Architecture of Alta California. Ironically, the structure was completely destroyed by torrential rains later that same year; a precise replica was erected immediately thereafter and today stands in its place. The structure measures some 35 feet above the base (which itself is 15 feet off the ground) and supports two bells, each hanging from a rawhide tether….”

San Antonio de Pala Asistencia sign San Antonio de Pala Asistencia, Pala, Calif. Statue of a missionary at San Antonio de Pala Asistencia, Pala, Calif.

San Antonio de Pala founded in 1816

The front of the San Antonio de Pala Asistencia

 

Stone base of the missionary statue, San Antonio de Pala Asistencia, Pala, Calif. Stone base of the missionary statue, San Antonio de Pala Asistencia, Pala, Calif. Stone base of the missionary statue, San Antonio de Pala Asistencia, Pala, Calif.

 

Some of the stones used in the base of the statue shown above

 

Bell Tower at the San Antonio de Pala Asistencia, Pala, Calif.  San Antonio de Pala Asistencia, Pala, Calif. Bell Tower at Pala Mission

Photographs of Bell Tower

 

 

Sign re. the Bell Tower,  San Antonio de Pala Asistencia, Pala, Calif. Sign re. the bells in the Bell Tower, San Antonio de Pala Asistencia, Pala, Calif. Sign. re. the cactus planted at the Bell Tower, San Antonio de Pala Asistencia, Pala, Calif.

“The original bell tower is a copy of a tower in Ciudad, Juarez, Chi., Mexico....”

 

The cactus & the Bell Tower

Front of  San Antonio de Pala Asistencia, Pala, Calif., in front of the Bell Tower Front of  San Antonio de Pala Asistencia, Pala, Calif., in front of the Bell Tower Statue in front of the San Antonio de Pala Asistencia, Pala, Calif.

 

Looking at the Bell Tower through the tree branches from the front of the mission

 

Statue in front of the San Antonio de Pala Asistencia, Pala, Calif. Stone surround in the Statue in front of the San Antonio de Pala Asistencia, Pala, Calif.I

Stone surround

 

Front of the San Antonio de Pala Asistencia, Pala, Calif. Front of the San Antonio de Pala Asistencia, Pala, Calif. Front of the San Antonio de Pala Asistencia, Pala, Calif.

 

 

 

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