All Saints church, Deane

I seemingly can't stop visiting Overton and the villages where Jane Austen grew up. I'm not a fan, but it's a lovely area.

This is Deane church, with a flooded path. 

The church was rebuilt after Austen's time and much of it was built of Coade stone, an artificial stone invented and produced by a woman, Eleanor Coade (1733-1821). She developed an amazing material that could be made to look like either wood or marble, resisted weathering, and could be molded into mass-produced items ranging from tiny ornaments to the pinnacles of this church