Lacock Abbey
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Lacock Abbey is a country house in the village of Lacock, Wiltshire, England. There was an abbey of nuns on the site until 1539, and the house is a remodelling and extension of the abbey's cloister co
Lacock Abbey from the south, including the window famously photographed by William Henry Fox Talbot
The chapter house survives unaltered.
The internal courtyard of the cloisters
A latticed window in Lacock Abbey, photographed by William Fox Talbot in 1835. Shown here in positive form, this may be the oldest extant photographic negative made in a camera.
Ela of Salisbury, 3rd Countess of Salisbury was an English peeress. She succeeded to the title in her own right in 1196 upon the death of her father, William FitzPatrick, 2nd Earl of Salisbury.
Lacock Abbey
…notable as the site of Henry Fox Talbot's pioneering work in photography in the 1830s. The religious institution was founded in the early 13th century by Ela, Countess of Salisbury, as a nunnery of the Augustinian order. The abbey remained a nunnery until the dissolution of the monasteries in the 16th century; the property was…
Lacock Abbey, founded in 1229 by Ela, Countess of Salisbury
Ela's tombstone at Lacock Abbey