Lacock Abbey

Lacock Abbey is a former Augustinian nunnery and later country house located in the village of Lacock, Wiltshire. It was founded in 1229 and converted to a private house after the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s, though substantial medieval monastic buildings survive including the cloister, chapter house, and sacristy. The house is particularly associated with William Henry Fox Talbot, the photography pioneer, who made some of the world's earliest photographic negatives at the abbey in the 1830s. The property is owned by the National Trust and is open to the public.