The monastery has been "restored," even as has the church, out of all resemblance to its own honest original self.

The adobe walls are covered with painted wood, and the tiles have given way to shingles, just like any other modern and commonplace house.
The building faces the southeast.

The altar end is at the northwest.

To the southwest are the remains of a building of boulders, brick, and cement, exactly of the same style as the asistencia building of Santa Margarita.

It seems as if it might have been built by the same hands.
Possibly in the earlier days Santa Margarita was a _vista_ of San Luis, rather than of San Miguel, though it is generally believed that it was under the jurisdiction of the latter..