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The Conservatory
The word conservatory is taken from the Italian word 'conservato' meaning 'stored or preserved' and Latin 'ory' which means a 'place for'. Originally the word used to specify a building without glazing utilized for storing food. Later the word was used to describe glazed structures for supporting or protecting plants from inclement weather. Currently conservatories are broadly known to be buildings built on to dwellings, but the edifices discussed typically would be better understood by us as hothouses, greenhouses or glasshouses. No one really knows when the transition of the word conservatory to its present definition occurred, the research goes on however! It is probably true that the word 'conservatory' has many different meanings dependent on where you live. Furthermore, the word 'sunroom' may also be used interdependently again depending where you are resident. Around the same time as Samuel Pepys, John Evelyn, wrote about the architecture of a conservatory in his Elysium Britannicum which he completed in the mid seventeenth century. This had wreathed columns and Corinthian capitals but whether this was drawn from his awareness or if he was stimulated by one he had observed we may never know. The earliest known conservatories appear to originate from the 1600s. Not however, to types that we would identify as a conservatory today. In those days they were simply stone structures with more glazing material in them than the edifices they were connected to. They were used by the landed gentry, nobility and the scientific community to protect vegetation, especially those that had been gathered on their European expeditions and wished to nurture in the less warm climates of Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England. Various kinds of plants and seeds were also being collected by explorers in far flung places like South America, New Zealand and Australia. These exotic plants and shrubs required protection when they were grown in the UK. |
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This intel was contributed by alonzo
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