St Nicholas Church, Steventon

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Dedicated to St Nicholas, the church is a small, simple, Norman building which was originally constructed around 1200. Steventon church, apart from some limited 13th, 15th and 19th century alterations, has stayed remarkably the same since it was first built. The building, with walls over a metre thick in places, is in the main, constructed from local flints set in a soft lime mortar and rendered over. Much of the stone for the corners and the various door and window surrounds came from Binstead in the Isle of Wight.
Steventon church is best known for its associations with Jane Austen. It is the single most important building left standing in Steventon which relates to her life when she lived here. The Rectory where she lived is now gone, but the church survives, and apart from a number of largely cosmetic differences, it is little changed from when she did live here. This church was an everyday part of her life, and she would certainly have no problems in recognising it as the church in which she worshipped for the first 25 years of her life.

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