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A family outing, to Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire. (Our daughter has developed a fascination with country houses, which we are delighted to nourish.)
Dogs are not allowed in the house, so my Whippet Castorp and I stayed outside whilst the family toured the inside. The buildings are a stylistic hodge podge: a 16th century family seat built on top of an earlier Augustinian nunnery, with extra layers from the following centuries. Yet the house exudes unity and simplicity, a quiet unintimidating grandeur. Sitting by its walls with my dog, I felt peace. Buildings can do that.
The house belonged to the Talbot family, and it was here that Henry Fox Talbot developed the photographic paper negative process in the early 1800s. Talbot's book The Pencil of Nature contains several photographs of the place. Being in the shade of the objects of these first-ever photographs added another dimension to this somewhat spiritual experience.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Tower_of_Lacock_Abbey_MET_DP147248.jpg
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My fondness of archways I screenshot this week while live with the Castle Crew that I'm a member of at Lacock Abbey in Lacock, Wiltshire, England 🇬🇧 I love architecture #lacockabbey #england #castlecrew
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#ThrowbackThursday to 2006 and the first month or so of my first DSLR camera, when any excuse to take it out somewhere new at the weekends was leapt upon at every opportunity. This is the #cloisters at #Lacock #Abbey in #Wiltshire, and if it looks familiar to you then you might have seen the #HarryPotter movies where scenes were filmed.
This was with a #Canon EOS 350D. I've since moved through a 5D Mk II to the R6 I now use.
#TravelPhotography #Travel #Photography #LacockAbbey #Movies