Lacock Abbey
Former nunnery turned country house in a Wiltshire village, home of photography pioneer Fox Talbot, with cloisters, gardens and the Fox Talbot Museum.
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Over het museum
Lacock Abbey was founded in 1232 by Ela, Countess of Salisbury, as a nunnery for Augustinian canonesses, and Ela later joined the community herself. After the Dissolution of the Monasteries, Henry VIII sold the abbey around 1539 to Sir William Sharington. He pulled down the church and turned the monastic buildings into a family house, keeping the medieval cloisters and adding an octagonal tower in the mid-sixteenth century.
The house passed through marriage to the Talbot family, and in the nineteenth century it became the home of William Henry Fox Talbot. In 1835 he made what is believed to be the oldest surviving photographic negative, showing a window of the abbey, and in the 1840s his calotype process made it possible to produce many prints from one negative. For this reason Lacock is known as a birthplace of photography. The family also added Gothic Revival features to the house in the early nineteenth century.
Matilda Talbot gave the abbey and the village of Lacock to the National Trust in 1944. Part of the ground floor now houses the Fox Talbot Museum, which presents the early history of photography and shows changing photography exhibitions. The cloisters and other rooms have appeared in films, including Harry Potter productions.
Hoogtepunten
- Medieval cloisters and monastic rooms of the former abbey
- Fox Talbot Museum on the history of photography
- Window photographed in 1835 for one of the earliest negatives
- Gardens with a Botanic Garden, rose garden and orchard
- Lacock village with timber-framed houses
Vaste collectie
- Lacock Abbey rooms and cloisters – The medieval cloisters, the Sharington-era house and the Great Hall, with the window photographed by Fox Talbot in 1835; the abbey rooms close in winter.
- Fox Talbot Museum – A museum on the invention and early history of photography, including Fox Talbot's work at Lacock and a collection that runs up to the present day.
- Opgericht
- 1201
- Beheerder
- National Trust
Toegangsprijzen & kortingen
| Volwassenen | £ 21 |
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| Kinderen & jongeren | £ 10,50gratis t/m 4 jaar · Child ticket for ages 5 to 17; under-5s enter free. |
| Groepen | £ 19,95 p.p.Group price per adult; the group price per child aged 5 to 17 is £9.98. |
| Gezinnen | £ 52,50Family ticket for 2 adults and up to 3 children; 1 adult and up to 3 children costs £31.50. |
| Family ticket, 1 adult and up to 3 children | £ 31,50 |
| Winter adult ticket, abbey rooms closed (1 November to 1 March) | £ 14Child £7; family of 2 adults and up to 3 children £35. |
| Christmas adult ticket (28 November to 1 January) | £ 16Child £8; family of 2 adults and up to 3 children £40. |
The prices shown are for 1 March to 31 October, when the abbey rooms are open. Prices are without Gift Aid (adult £23.10 with Gift Aid). National Trust members enter free. Tickets are sold on the day at visitor reception and need not be booked in advance. Non-members pay £5 a day for parking.
Toegankelijkheid
- Deels rolstoeltoegankelijk
- Lift: geen informatie
- Aangepast toilet
- Gehandicaptenparkeerplaats
- Hulphonden welkom: geen informatie
- Tastmodellen / voelbare objecten: geen informatie
- Rondleidingen in gebarentaal: geen informatie
- Informatie in eenvoudige taal: geen informatie
- Audiodescriptie: geen informatie
Access to the abbey includes steps and uneven floors. Blue Badge parking is in the Hither Way car park. An accessible toilet is in the courtyard and a RADAR accessible toilet is in the village. The shop has level access, and an accessibility map and an AccessAble guide are available.
Kinderen & gezin
Erg geschikt voor kinderen & gezinnen
| Toegang kinderen | gratis t/m 4 jaar |
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| Gezinsticket | £ 52,50 · Family ticket for 2 adults and up to 3 children; 1 adult and up to 3 children costs £31.50. |
- Gezinsrondleidingen & workshops
- Speurtocht, doeboekje of kinderaudiotour
The National Trust promotes family-friendly activity trails, seasonal blooms and a search for the window linked to the invention of photography in the abbey rooms and the Fox Talbot Museum.
Bereikbaarheid & parkeren
Met het openbaar vervoer
Faresaver bus X34 runs between Chippenham and Frome and stops in Lacock. The nearest railway stations are Melksham (3 miles) and Chippenham (3½ miles). Visitors who show a bus ticket get a free regular hot drink.
Met de auto
Betaald parkeren
The Hither Way car park is less than 400 metres from Visitor Reception, about 200 yards by the signed route to the entrance. Payment is by the JustPark app or machines (property code 896468): £5 a day for non-members, free for National Trust members who register. Five coach spaces are available, and coaches park free. Electric vehicle charging is available in the car park.
- Gehandicaptenparkeerplaats
Lacock is 3 miles south of Chippenham; leave the M4 at junction 17 and follow the A350 towards Warminster until Lacock. Satellite navigation to the car park: SN15 2RQ. There is no parking or dropping off in the village streets. Bike racks are in the car park, and National Cycle Network route 4 passes about a mile away.
Route plannenService & horeca
- Café
- Museumwinkel
The Stables Café in the village serves light lunches, snacks, hot drinks and cakes; a courtyard tea-room opens in season. The National Trust shop is on Lacock's High Street, with a plant shop at visitor reception and a second-hand bookshop in the courtyard. Dogs on short leads are welcome in the garden all year. Toilets are in the abbey courtyard and by the Stables Café.
Evenementen & zaalverhuur
Het museum heeft hierover geen informatie gepubliceerd.
Je bezoek plannen
| Goed om te weten | Tickets are bought on the day at visitor reception. The Fox Talbot Museum is part of the same site and ticket and sells photography books and souvenirs. |
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