All Saints Church, Buncton

All Saints Church
The church from the northwest
50°54′48″N 0°22′21″W / 50.9133°N 0.3726°W / 50.9133; -0.3726
Location	Water Lane, Buncton, West Sussex BN44 3DD
Country	United Kingdom
Denomination	Church of England
History
Status	Parish church
Founded	Late 11th century
Founder(s)	Monks of Sele Priory (attr.)
Dedication	All Saints
Dedicated	By 1873[1]
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade I
Designated	15 March 1955
Style	Norman
Groundbreaking	Late 11th century
Administration
Province	Canterbury
Diocese	Chichester
Archdeaconry	Horsham
Deanery	Rural Deanery of Storrington
Parish	Wiston with Buncton

All Saints Church is an Anglican church in the hamlet of Buncton in the district of Horsham, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex. Built in the 11th or 12th century as a small chapel of ease to a nearby parish church, and hardly changed or restored since, the stone chapel stands behind a "delightful ... wooded ravine"^[2] beneath the South Downs and has been called "a real piece of hidden Sussex".^[3] The chancel arch, between the nave and chancel which made up the simple two-room building, had a bizarre 12th-century carving of a person of indeterminate sex exposing their genitalia—until 2004, when an unknown vandal destroyed it with a chisel. The church is still used for Christian worship, and English Heritage has listed it at Grade I for its architectural and historical importance. The church is also known as Buncton Chapel.