Lacock Abbey

After church on Sunday, the 19th, we took a drive to the historic village of Lacock. This is the quintessential English village. It was adorable!

This is a church there where a royal wedding recently took place. They had several pictures of all of the Royalty who came.

This is Lacock Abbey, which was built in 1229 A.D.

This is the central courtyard. Anyone recognize it?

This is one of the hallways in the abbey, by the courtyard.

Now do you recognize it? It was also used in The Other Boleyn Girl and the BBC's 1995 version of Pride and Prejudice.

The floor was made of cobblestones. The picture doesn't show how bumpy it was, but it was really rough and difficult to walk on.

The abbey was eventually dissolved and it was turned into a house. William Henry Fox Talbot lived there and is famous for making the first surviving photographic negative. While at the house, he discovered the negative/positive photographic process, which modern photography is based on. Yes, that is a leopard looking out a window in the hall.

I loved the Victorian rooms.

The gardens. It's really in the middle of no where, but in such a pretty country side.

The village of Lacock.