Editing Lacock Abbey (section)

==Today==
Lacock Abbey is the property of the [[National Trust]], to which it was given in 1944 by Matilda Gilchrist-Clark, who had inherited the estate from her uncle Charles Henry Fox Talbot in 1916.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://foxtalbot.co.uk/history-of-lacock-village-and-lacock-abbey/ |title=History of Lacock Abbey, Estate and Lacock Village |work=Fox Talbot Museum |publisher=The National Trust |access-date=23 August 2016|date=2013-08-15 }}</ref> The abbey is a Grade I [[listed building]].<ref>{{NHLE|grade=I|desc=Lacock Abbey with stable yard|num=1283853|date=20 December 1960}}</ref>

The Fox Talbot Museum forms part of the ground floor. It celebrates the life of William Henry Fox Talbot, and his contributions to photography, and includes exhibits on the man himself,<ref name=FTM/> his mousetrap camera (so-called by his wife because he scattered the little wooden boxes round the house),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dpreview.com/articles/7727265089 |title=Fox Talbot's historical Mousetrap camera leaves UK for first time, heads to Tokyo |author=Demolder, Damien |date=16 September 2016 |publisher=DPreview |access-date=5 September 2016}}</ref> the chemical processes involved in obtaining images and the early history of photography. Exhibitions showing the works of various photographers are sometimes held in a gallery on the first floor.<ref name=FTM>{{cite web |url=http://foxtalbot.co.uk/ |title=Fox Talbot Museum  |publisher=The National Trust |access-date=23 August 2016}}</ref> The Fenton Collection, an historic photographic collection, was transferred to the museum from the [[British Film Institute]] in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/lacock-abbey-fox-talbot-museum-and-village/features/coming-soon-the-fenton-collection-at-lacock|title=The Fenton Collection|website=National Trust|language=en|access-date=5 May 2018}}</ref>