paper read at the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1869, Wyatt Papworth summarised Bonomi's approach: The style adopted by him was the Italian or modernised Roman; and he sought to obtain the characteristic effect appropriate to the object of his design, rather by just proportions and good details than by unnecessary ornamentation and littleness of parts, thus exhibiting his preference for the "Architecturesque" over the "Picturesque." He took a bold approach to Classical architecture, and was prepared to break its accepted rules by, for instance, omitting the frieze from an entablature, or supporting a portico on an odd number of columns. A favourite innovation was to project the main portico of a house deep enough to form a porte cochère (i.e. a shelter for carriages ). Works Notable works include: Dale Park, Madehurst, Sussex (1784). Demolished 1959. Parts of Towneley Hall near Burnley in Lancashire. Barrells Hall, near Ullenhall, Henley in Arden Warwickshire, home of Lady Luxborough and the Newton family of Glencripesdale Estate, Argyll. Gallery at Packington Hall, Great Packington, Warwickshire, for Heneage Finch, Earl of Aylesford. St James' Church, Great Packington, Warwickshire (1789–92). Saloon for Lady Montagu's house in Portman Square, London (1790). Destroyed 1941 Eastwell House, Kent, for George Finch Hatton (1793-9). London, The Spanish Chapel, Manchester Square (1793-6; demolished 1880) replaced by St James's, Spanish Place Pyramidal mausoleum at Blickling Park, Norfolk in memory of John, second Earl of Buckinghamshire. Saloon and staircase at Piercefield House, Monmouthshire. Remodelling of Stansted Park, Sussex (with James Wyatt). Alterations to Hatchlands Park, near Guildford, Surrey. Church of Our Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory, London (1789–90). Laverstoke House, Laverstoke, Hampshire (1798). Sections of Lambton Castle, near Washington, County Durham (1798–1802). The castle was further enlarged by Bonomi's son Ignatius. Longford Hall, Shropshire. Rosneath House, Dunbartonshire, for the Duke of Argyll (1803–06). Demolished 1961. Literature Bonomi is briefly mentioned in Sense and Sensibility. In the novel, Robert Ferrars says to Elinor (perhaps untruthfully) that his friend Lord Courtland had shown him three house designs by Bonomi and asked him to choose between them, but that Robert had burned them and advised Courtland to build a cottage instead. Notes References Artists from Rome 1739 births 1808 deaths 18th-century English architects 18th-century Italian architects Architects from Lazio Italian draughtsmen Italian emigrants to the Kingdom of Great Britain Associates of the Royal Academy