Lacock Abbey
Lacock Abbey – Warming Room
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- On screen
- Quirrell's Defence Against the Dark Arts classroom
- Where
- Lacock, Wiltshire
- Time & access
- National Trust: ticket or membership.
In the film
McGonagall pulls Oliver Wood out of Professor Quirrell’s lesson.
History in brief
Lacock Abbey was founded as an Augustinian nunnery in 1232 by Ela, Countess of Salisbury. After the Dissolution it became a country house, where William Henry Fox Talbot made pioneering photographs in the 1830s. The warming room was the one place the nuns could have a fire; a huge 16th-century cauldron still stands there.
The place today
Open with the abbey.
Always check opening times, access rules and travel advice before you go.