Cambridge was a crucial centre of patronage and taste at the beginning of the Greek Revival’s popularity during the first thirty-five years of the nineteenth century. Yet beyond the University there seems to have been little opening for practitioners of the style in East Anglia as a whole. Thus William Wilkins, Francis Goodwin and William John Donthorn, all three born in Norfolk, made their careers in London. Donthorn, the least noticed of the three, did however develop local connexions in Norfolk, particularly as a country house architect. Few of his houses remain today, yet we may assess his idiosyncratic contribution both from early photographs and from his drawings at the Royal Institute of British Architects.