In the northeast corner is the vault in which are buried the members of the Franciscan community.
In the bell tower are two old bells made in 1818, as is evidenced by their inscriptions, which read alike, as follows: "Manvel Vargas me fecit ano d.

1818 Mision de Santa Barbara De la nveba California"-- "Manuel Vargas made me Anno Domini 1818.

Mission of Santa Barbara of New California." The first bell is fastened to its beam with rawhide thongs; the second, with a framework of iron.

Higher up is a modern bell which is rung (the old ones being tolled only).
The Mission buildings surround the garden, into which no woman, save a reigning queen or the wife of the President of the United States, is allowed to enter.

An exception was made in the case of the Princess Louise when her husband was the Governor-general of Canada.