Getty Trust Awards Preservation Grants : Repairs: The $1.4 million sum includes $50,000 for work on the San Gabriel Mission.

The J. Paul Getty Trust has awarded $50,000 for emergency repairs to the often-damaged historic San Gabriel Mission, one of California’s oldest.

The grant is one of 23 totaling $1.4 million the Getty Trust awarded Wednesday to preservation projects worldwide. Other local recipients include the Los Angeles Conservatory and the China Exploration and Research Society, based in Altadena.

The San Gabriel Mission grant will be used to shore up the mission’s structure while a detailed restoration analysis sympathetic to landmark’s design history is conducted, and an estimate made for a request for additional funds from the Getty’s architectural conservation program.

The mission over the years has barely survived various catastrophes. Originally located in what is now the city of Montebello in 1771, it was moved to its present site at the corner of Junipero Serra and Mission drives in 1798, only to be destroyed in a flood in 1810.

Rebuilt again with fired brick in 1812, the mission has since been modified repeatedly. Its tower and vaulted ceiling collapsed in a 1912 earthquake; the church was severely damaged in the 1987 Whittier earthquake; and damaged again last year by seismic activity.

Also receiving a grant is the nonprofit Los Angeles Conservancy, which in the last few years has greatly expanded its program and staff. It was awarded $20,000 to conduct a survey of historic buildings in the city in cooperation with the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency and City Planning Department.

According to the Getty, the survey, which will be used to “establish priorities for future conservation efforts,” also is expected to serve as a model for similar efforts in other cities.

The China Exploration and Research Society, based in Altadena, received a $20,000 project identification grant for the proposed conservation of the Dege Tibetan Printing House.

Other grants to organizations and efforts in the United States include two of $50,000 apiece to develop conservation plans for two Jeffersonian landmarks in Virginia: Monticello and Poplar Forest. Both are to share consultant expertise and research.

Grants of $50,000 also went to the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation to develop restoration plans for the late architect’s home and studio in Spring Green, Wis., known as Taliesin East; and to the Sir John Soane’s Museum in London, for emergency repairs while a renovation plan for the entire structure is drafted.

Seventeen of the 23 grants were for project identification and plan preparation. Getty officials said these projects will compete at a future date for implementation funds.

Implementation grants in the current round of awards went to five projects: $250,000 to restore the Gothic Revival-styled St. Ann’s Church in Brooklyn, known for its figurative stained glass windows; $220,000 to restore two of the adobe structures in the Taos Pueblo in New Mexico; and lesser amounts to three projects in the United Kingdom.