11 Facts About Italianate

Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture.

Italianate style was first developed in Britain in about 1802 by John Nash, with the construction of Cronkhill in Shropshire.

The Italianate style was further developed and popularised by the architect Sir Charles Barry in the 1830s.

Barry's Italianate style drew heavily for its motifs on the buildings of the Italian Renaissance, though sometimes at odds with Nash's semi-rustic Italianate villas.

Late intimation of John Nash's development of the Italianate style was his 1805 design of Sandridge Park at Stoke Gabriel in Devon.

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The Italianate style came to the small town of Newton Abbot and the village of Starcross in Devon, with Isambard Brunel's atmospheric railway pumping houses.

An example that is not very well known, but a clear example of Italianate architecture, is St Christopher's Anglican church in Hinchley Wood, Surrey, particularly given the design of its bell tower.

Italianate revival was comparatively less prevalent in Scottish architecture, examples include some of the early work of Alexander Thomson and buildings such as the west side of George Square.

Italianate developed a silk industry, upgraded olive-oil production, and brought with him numerous Italian engineers who began the construction of mansions and civil building throughout the country.

Italianate style was popularized in the United States by Alexander Jackson Davis in the 1840s as an alternative to Gothic or Greek Revival styles.

Motifs drawn from the Italianate style were incorporated into the commercial builders' repertoire and appear in Victorian architecture dating from the mid-to-late 19th century.