Lacock Abbey in the village of Lacock, Wiltshire, England, was founded in the early 13th century by Ela, Countess of Salisbury, as a nunnery of the Augustinian order.

Seasonal blooms, activity trails, medieval architecture and photographic discovery: have a fun-filled adventure at Lacock Abbey. Watch the gardens come to life, explore the nature and wildlife of the season and have a day of play in the parkland during the summer holidays.

Explore 800 years of history at Lacock Abbey, which has been a medieval nunnery, a Tudor home, the birthplace of photography and a Harry Potter film set.

Seasonal blooms, activity trails, medieval architecture and photographic discovery: have a fun-filled adventure at Lacock Abbey. Watch the gardens come to life, explore the nature and wildlife of the season and have a day of play in the parkland during the summer holidays.

Lacock Abbey was a monastery founded at Lacock, in the county of Wiltshire in England, in the early 13th century by Ela, Countess of Salisbury, as a house of Augustinian Canonesses regular. It was seized by the crown in 1539 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII.

Lacock Abbey is a quirky country house, developed over the centuries around a former 13th century nunnery, and the birthplace of modern photography. It is set in spacious wooded grounds, with plenty of space to picnic, and is now recognisable from films …

2022年5月28日 · Lacock Abbey was founded in April 1232, by Ela Countess of Salisbury and High Sheriff of Salisbury, one of the most powerful women of her day. Six years later, she took holy orders and became a nun, and was made Abbess of Lacock in 1240.

2021年2月18日 · Lacock Abbey and Village form part of a National Trust owned and extremely well preserved area of North Wiltshire countryside. The abbey and village are open to visitors, and remain a popular filming location due to their unspoilt appearance.

2019年3月15日 · Lacock Abbey offers gardens, medieval cloisters and an eclectic house which witnessed the birth of British photography. And fans of Harry Potter love it.

Lacock, just four miles south of Chippenham, is probably the most beautifully preserved village in the Cotswolds. This is largely thanks to Ela, Countess of Salisbury, first and only female sheriff of Wiltshire. It was Countess Ela who founded Lacock Abbey in 1232 in memory of her husband, William Longswoth, stepbrother to Richard the Lionheart ...