Anthaeum, Hove
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The Anthaeum 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
The gardens of Palmeira Square occupy the site of the Anthaeum.
Hove Club, 28 Fourth Street, Hove
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Palmeira Square
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Palmeira Square is a mid-19th-century residential development in Hove, part of the English city and seaside resort of Brighton and Hove. At the southern end it adjoins Adelaide Crescent, another archi
Anthaeum, Hove
…residential set-piece whose northern side it adjoined, and Phillips went blind from the shock of watching the largest of his many projects end in disaster. Palmeira Square, another residential development, has occupied the site since the late 19th century. Amon Henry Wilds and Henry Phillips were Sussex-born men whose…
The east side of the square seen from the north
The houses on the west side were completed first.
An "elegantly handled ... double curve" marks the transition from Adelaide Crescent (foreground) to Palmeira Square. The Enclosures belonging to the houses have pathways and shrubs.
St John the Baptist's Church (seen from Palmeira Square Gardens) serves the area.