[The Old Franciscan Missions Of California by George Wharton James]@TWC D-Link bookThe Old Franciscan Missions Of California CHAPTER XIV 6/7
The largest is to the right, the smallest in the center.
On the largest bell is the following inscription: "Me fecit ano di 1818 Manvel Vargas, Lima.
Mision de Sn Luis Obispo De La Nueba California." This latter is a circumferential panel about midway between the top and bottom of the bell.
On the middle bell we read the same inscription, while there is none on the third. This latter was cast in San Francisco, from two old bells which were broken. From a painting the old San Luis Obispo church is seen to have been raised up on a stone and cement foundation.
The corridor was without the arches that are elsewhere one of the distinctive features, but plain round columns, with a square base and topped with a plain square moulding, gave support to the roof beams, on which the usual red-tiled roof was placed. The _fachada_ of the church retreats some fifteen or twenty feet from the front line of the corridors.
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