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Lacock, Wiltshire
Lacock, Wiltshire

Lacock Abbey

A country house with monastic roots and an original medieval cloister.

Lacock Abbey was officially founded on 16 April 1232 by Ela, Countess of Salisbury, one of the most powerful women of the Middle Ages.

In the mid-1500s, after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the Abbey became a Tudor family home.

William Henry Fox Talbot inherited the house in 1800, when he was only five months old. The estate was in debt and was rented out until Fox Talbot moved in with his mother and stepfather in 1827. Fox Talbot then lived here, with his family, until he died in 1877.

During Fox Talbot’s time, the Abbey would have looked much as it looks today.

in August 1835 Fox Talbot made history by capturing the world's first surviving photographic negative in the South Gallery at Lacock Abbey – an invention that would change how we see the world.

The Abbey and estate was given to the National Trust in 1944.

Grade I Listed

www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/wiltshire/lacock/history-o...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacock_Abbey


The Great Hall
by Sanderson Miller

Gothic Revival
Created in 1753-1755


Wall Niches
Statues (mostly unknown)
by Victor Alexander Sederbach
Terracotta

Over the Fireplace:

Ela, Countess of Salisbury (1187-1261)
by Victor Alexander Sederbach
Terracotta

Ella founded Lacock Abbey in 1232.

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Exposure Time: 0.033 sec (1/30)
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