Lacock Abbey
Lacock Abbey is a former nuns convent of Augustinian from the early 13th century, in the village of Lacock . It was founded by Ela, Countess of Salisbury . The abbey is now a museum.
history
During the reign of King Henry III. founded Ela of Salisbury Abbey. Her husband was William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury and an illegitimate son of the previous King Henry II of England.
The abbey was economically successful throughout the Middle Ages. The fertile farmland, which Ela of Salisbury had also given to the abbey, ensured a considerable income, especially from wool.
When the monasteries were closed in the middle of the 16th century, King Henry VIII sold the property to Sir William Sharrington, who converted it into a residence in 1539 and had the abbey church demolished. Few changes were made to the other monastery buildings, so the cloister is still below the living rooms. Over the centuries, however, other changes were made to the building, such as a tower in the Renaissance style and additional state rooms.
In the 1750s the building belonged to John Ivory Talbot and was remodeled in a neo-Gothic style. The architect was Sanderson Miller.
The house remained in the possession of the Talbot family and is often called Talbot in connection with William Henry Fox . Talbot made the first known and preserved photograph in 1835. It shows the bay window on the south front of the house. He carried out further experiments there and invented the negative / positive process in photography, from which modern photography developed.
Today the building houses a museum dedicated to Talbot's pioneering work in the field of photography. The original photograph of the bay window is also on display there.
Lacock Abbey and the entire Lacock village were given to the National Trust in 1944 . This marketed the abbey and the village together as "Lacock Abbey, Fox Talbot Museum & Village".
The abbey in the film
Some interior shots of the film Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets were filmed in Lacock, including the scene in the cloister where Harry frees the house-elf Dobby. Also in the sixth Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince , some nightly ghost scenes were filmed at Hogwarts with the main cast in Lacock in October 2007.
The abbey was also one of two main locations for the historical film adaptation of the novel The Queen's Sister in 2008 .
Other films included parts of the television series Robin Hood , Cromm Cruad , The Magic Arrow , The Contest and The Heir to the Throne .
Lacock's book
The Book of Lacock is a manuscript that was probably written in Lacock Abbey in the mid-14th century.
The history of the founding of Lacock is briefly detailed in the abbey's annals , believed to have been compiled by one of the clergymen of the house circa 1275, and in greater detail in the Lacock book which tells the story of the abbey's founder and her family and is evident Was written in the middle of the 14th century. The annals describe the profession of the first nuns in 1232, the book mentions the name of the first canoness Alicia Garinges. In all likelihood it came from the first English Augustinian monastery in Goring-on-Thames ( Oxfordshire ) in order to benefit the new community with its experience in religious life. Although the annals place the founding of the abbey in the following year, the book gives an exact date, April 16, 1232, when Ela of Salisbury founded two convents in one day - Lacock in the morning and Hinton, Somerset (originally owned by her husband in Haltherop , Gloucestershire ) in the afternoon.
In 1598 the manuscript was in the possession of John Stow († 1605), who had a copy made, later in the Cotton Library , but today in the British Museum (Cott. MS. Vit. A. VIII, ff. 128v. Seq ); it is almost completely illegible.
expenditure
- William Dugdale , Monasticon Anglicanum (1655-1673) Volume 6, Part 1, pp. 501-2
- William Lisle Bowles , John Gough Nichols, Annals and Antiquities of Lacock Abbey , London 1835, Appendix I. Page i seq online
literature
- Ralph Pugh , Elizabeth Crittall, A History of the County of Wiltshire , Volume 3 (1956), House of Augustinian canonesses: The Abbey of Lacock, pp. 303-316 online
Web links
- Lacock Abbey, Fox Talbot Museum & Village Information from the National Trust
- Lacock Abbey Garden --- a gardening guide
- Images from the films shot there
Remarks
- ↑ In the heavily scorched manuscript BM, Cott. MS. Vit. A. VIII, ff 113 seq. The dating is in the same handwriting until 1320, the entries are in a different handwriting from 1275 onwards; the annals are continued by various writers up to the end of the 15th century, but provide only a few references to the events within the abbey
- ↑ The original in BM, Cott. MS Vit. A. VIII, ff 128v seq. Is almost illegible. A copy from the late 16th century exists in BM MS Harl. 5019, ff. 222 seq. Printed versions can be found in Dugdale Monasticon Volume 6, Part 1, S: 501-502, and Bowles / Nichols, Annals of Lacock Abbey, Appendix 1, p. I seq. The compilation cannot be later than 1357, because Queen Isabella is mentioned as alive, Bowles / Nichols, p. 374. In their foreword Bowles / Nichols mention a second manuscript that was bound in Tiberius B XIII and apparently burned in 1731
- ↑ Hoc anno velantur prime moniales de Lacok. MCCXXXIII , Dugdale, Monasticon Volume 6, Part 1, p. 502a.
- ↑ Alicia Garinges apud Lacok prima canonissa velata , Bowles / Nichols, Annals, Appendis. I, p. Iii.
- ↑ Isto anno primitus fundatur coenobium de Lakoc. MCCXXXIII . Dugdale, Monasticon, Volume 6, Part 1, p. 502a; BM, Cott. MS. Vit. A. VIII.
- ↑ Bowles / Nichols, Annals, Appendix I, p. Iii: XVI kal. maii anno MCCXXXII . The calendar of the Psalter of Lacock in the Bodleian Library (Bodl., MS. Laud. Lat. 114 (649)) indicates September 11th as the day of the consecration of the Church and the following day as the day of the first profession
Coordinates: 51 ° 24 '53.1 " N , 2 ° 7' 1.8" W.