ID: 700002881 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700002881	Record Type: Built Work
Images: 1

Lacock Abbey (country house; unknown architect, established by Ela de Longespée of Sal...; 13th century, additions 1540-1...; Wiltshire (England, United Kingdom, Europe, World, Top of th...;)

Note: House was built over the old cloisters and its main rooms are on the first floor; following Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries in the 1539. The building was converted to a country house by owner Sir William Sharington 1540-1553. It was later occupied by photographer William Henry Fox Talbot. The first negative photograph was taken by Talbot in the building’s south gallery in 1839. In 1916, Charles Henry Fox Talbot bequeathed the Lacock estate to his neice, Nathilda Gilchrist-Clark, who, in 1944, presented the Abbey to the National Trust.

Titles:

Lacock Abbey (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

Laycock Abbey (C,U,English,U,U)

Lacock Abbey with Stable Yard (C,U,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

country house [300005567] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by function>, residential structures, dwellings, houses, <houses by location or context>, <houses by location: settlement area>, rural houses)

abbey (monastery) [300000642]

..... (Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Built Complexes and Districts (hierarchy name), complexes (buildings and sites), <complexes by function>, religious complexes, religious communities (built complexes), monasteries (built complexes))

Classifications:

architecture (preferred)

Creation Date: 13th century, additions 1540-1553 and 1753-1755, restoration 1900-1910

Creator Display:

unknown architect, established by Ela de Longespée of Salisbury (1187-1261), remodeled under ownership of William Sharington (English administrator, born ca. 1495, died 1553), entrance rebuilt by Sanderson Miller (British architect, 1717-1780) [preferred,VP]

owner Talbot, William Henry Fox (English photographer, 1800-1877) [500021449]

architect unknown (unknown cultural designation) Extent: design [500125274]

owner Sharington, William (English administrator, born ca. 1495, died 1553) [500356862]

architect Miller, Sanderson (British architect, 1717-1780) Extent: addition [500031585]

architect Brakspear, Harold (English architect, 1870-1934) Extent: restoration [500356866]

repository Term Not Found [500205356]

Locations:

Current: Wiltshire [7008180] England (country), United Kingdom (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: Haslebury stone

	stone (worked rock) [300011176]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, rock (inorganic material), <rock by form>)

	stonemasonry [300386948]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <processes and techniques by material>, stone-working)

Dimensions: unavailable

Cultures:

British (preferred)

English

General Subject:

architecture (preferred,isness)

religion and mythology (purpose)

Specific Subjects:

	Saint Anne [901001010]
	.....((Christian characters, Christian iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

	Bernard de Clairvaux, Saint (French saint, abbot, writer, 1090-1153) [500314286]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

Related Works:

	formerly was architectural context for .... Diogenes [700008438]
	..........terracotta (sculptural works); Victor Alexander Sederbach (Austrian sculptor, active 1755-1...; 1755

	built on site of .... Lacock Abbey [700054626]
	..........abbey (monastery); Patron: Ela, Countess of Salisbury; established ca. 1230; Lacock (Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe, World, T...

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Built Works

.......... Built Works by class: residential structures

Sources and Contributors:
Lacock Abbey	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ Kinney and Swain, Tudor England (2001) 28
	........ National Trust (2015-) accessed 14 January 2015
	........ Fletcher, History of Architecture (1987) 1014
	........ BWR [online] (2015-) BWR3755975; accessed 27 February 2015
	........ Summerson, Architecture in Britain (1977) 44
	........ Year of Landmark Listings, English Heritage (2015-) accessed 27 February 2015
	........ Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre [online] (2011) accessed 14 January 2015
Laycock Abbey	........ [VP]
	........ Smith, Disciples of light (1990) 101
Lacock Abbey with Stable Yard	........ [VP]
	........ National Heritage List for England, English Heritage [online] (2015-) accessed 27 February 2015

Subject: ....... [JPGM,VP]

....................... National Trust, Lacock Abbey (1972) 4-5, 10

....................... BWR [online] (2015-) BWR3755975; accessed 27 February 2015

....................... National Heritage List for England, English Heritage [online] (2015-) accessed 27 February 2015

....................... Summerson, Architecture in Britain (1977) 42-45

....................... British Library Digitised Manuscripts [online] (2015-) accessed 14 January 2015

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... British Library Digitised Manuscripts [online] (2015-) accessed 14 January 2015
	..... Kinney and Swain, Tudor England (2001) 28
	..... Oxford Dictionary of National Biography [online] (2004-) accessed 14 January 2015
	..... Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre [online] (2011) accessed 14 January 2015
	..... National Trust, Lacock Abbey (1972) 4-5, 10