Mission San Ignacio
Misión San Ignacio Kadakaamán
Mission San Ignacio de Kadakaaman was founded by the Jesuits, but the actual church was built by the Dominicans (completed in 1786), and it’s quite different from the other missions as a result. The door is more moorish in style than the other mission doors, and none of the other missions have big crests flanking the doors. Close ups of the crests and a few other photos are below.
One of the Crests
The Other Crest
Stairs to the Tower
The stucco pattern at San Ignacio seems designed to suggest that the church is built of large quarried blocks of stone, rather than small local basalt.
The Tower
Mission San Ignacio across a field of young Palo Verdes
There are more photos of the church at Alt. Build Blog.
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February 7th, 2010 at 9:45 pm
Interesting how in this one and the post before they tried to dress up the stone to look like something it wasn’t.
February 8th, 2010 at 9:46 am
Yeah. The local stone seems to be treated like cinderblock a lot of the time — something to cover with stucco if the budget allows. Though there are some beautiful walls of it, too.