Anthaeum, Hove
The Anthaeum (also spelt Antheum or Anthæum) was an iron and glass conservatory planned by English botanist and landscape gardener Henry Phillips and designed by architect Amon Henry Wilds on land owned by Sir Isaac Goldsmid in Hove, a Sussex seaside town which is now part of the city of Brighton and Hove. Conceived on a grand scale and consisting of a gigantic cupola-topped dome covering more than 1.5 acres (0.61 ha), the structure was intended to enclose a carefully landscaped tropical garden, with exotic trees and shrubs, lakes, rockeries and other attractions. The scheme was a larger and more ambitious version of a project Phillips and Wilds had worked on in 1825 in Hove's larger neighbour Brighton, for which money had run out before work could commence. Unlike its predecessor, the Ant
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Anthaeum, Hove
The Anthaeum (also spelt Antheum or Anthæum) was an iron and glass conservatory planned by English botanist and landscape gardener Henry Phillips and designed by architect Amon Henry Wilds on land owned by Sir Isaac Goldsmid in Hove, a Sussex seaside town which is now part of the city of Brighton and Hove. Conceived on a grand scale and consisting of a gigantic cupola-topped dome covering more than 1.5 acres (0.61 ha), the structure was intended to enclose a carefully landscaped tropical garden, with exotic trees and shrubs, lakes, rockeries and other attractions. The scheme was a larger and more ambitious version of a project Phillips and Wilds had worked on in 1825 in Hove's larger neighbour Brighton, for which money had run out before work could commence. Unlike its predecessor, the Ant
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6070.2846336
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The Anthaeum (also spelt Anthe ...... e since the late 19th century.
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30 August 1833
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1833-08-30
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6.0702846336e+3
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1833-08-31
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Antheum, Anthæum
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United Kingdom
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Site of the Anthaeum within present-day Brighton and Hove
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United Kingdom Brighton and Hove
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Henry Phillips
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The immense ribs of iron snapp ...... forced its way to the ground.
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The Times, reporting the incident the following day
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structural engineer
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Iron framing and glass
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The Anthaeum (also spelt Anthe ...... nlike its predecessor, the Ant
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