The "handsome"[1] church, designed in the 14th/15th-century style of the Gothic Revival, has been listed at Grade II by English Heritage for its architectural and historical importance.

The ancient parish of West Hoathly covered a large area of the High Weald in central Sussex, characterised by clay soil with sandstone ridges.

[1] Nevertheless, in 1882, two wealthy local sisters, Frances Kirby and Caroline Weguelin, decided to pay for a church to be built in the hamlet.

[10] Their Gothic Revival design for All Saints—the most popular style for Sussex churches in the Victorian era—[11] used locally quarried stone and was completed in 1884.

[1][8] In 1933, the chancel floor was relaid with a checkerboard pattern of black and white marble by Walter Tower,[1] nephew and working partner of stained glass designer Charles Eamer Kempe.

[1] All Saints Church was listed at Grade II by English Heritage on 11 May 1983;[13] this defines it as a "nationally important" building of "special interest".

[15] The parish covers the hamlet of Highbrook and the surrounding rural area between the B2028 Edenbridge–Haywards Heath road and the preserved Bluebell Railway line.