Lacock Abbey
Medieval nunnery turned Tudor house, with intact cloisters, octagonal tower and twisted chimneys.
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This guide to Lacock Abbey, near Bath, follows William Sharington, the Tudor buyer who turned a thirteenth-century nunnery into a house without quite erasing it. It moves between the cloisters, the stone he salvaged and the chimneys he raised, and the royal mint at Bristol Castle he was running at the same time. Thomas Seymour and the boy king Edward the Sixth turn up along the way. Best heard in the cloisters, looking up at the rooms above.
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