showing a window taken from inside Lacock Abbey, his Wiltshire home. In 1841, Sir William Henry Fox Talbot secured a patent for his Calotype process. The following year, his groundbreaking work ...

The Metropolitan Museum New York Mr Fox Talbot made what is thought to be the earliest surviving photographic negative The earliest surviving example is of the Oriel Window at Lacock Abbey ...

Key attractions such as St Cyriac's Church, the tithe barn, and Lacock Abbey are Grade I listed and date back to the Middle Ages. A visit to the grounds of Lacock Abbey and the Fox Talbot Museum ...

He created the famous photographic negative which was of a small window in the Abbey’s south gallery. The Fox Talbot Museum records the history of photography up to the present day. Lacock is a ...