Lacock Abbey (Lacock)

United Kingdom / England / Melksham / Lacock
 museum, place with historical importance, monastery, National Trust property (UK), Grade I Listed (UK)
Site of the first ever negative exposure by Fox Talbot, Lacock Abbey was founded in the early 13th century by Ela, Countess of Salisbury in the reign of King Henry III, as a nunnery of the Augustinian order. Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the mid-16th century, Henry VIII of England sold it to Sir William Sharrington, who converted it into a house starting in 1539, demolishing the abbey church. The Abbey also underwent alterations in the 1750s under the ownership of John Ivory Talbot, in the Gothic Revival style. The architect was Sanderson Miller. Lacock Abbey and the surrounding village were given to the National Trust in 1944, marketed together as "Lacock Abbey, Fox Talbot Museum & Village". it houses a museum devoted to Talbot's pioneering work in photography.
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Coordinates:   51°24'53"N   2°7'2"W

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  • Sir, The lay out of Lacock Abbey on this web-site is great & so this history of Ela,Countess of Salisbury.William Longespee & Ela the Earl & Countess of Salisbury are my ancestory.
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