Buncton
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Buncton (Template:IPAc-en) is a small village in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England, part of the civil parish of Wiston Script error: No such module "convert". north. It lies to the east of the A24 road, Script error: No such module "convert". as the crow flies, about Script error: No such module "convert". by road south of Horsham and Script error: No such module "convert". north west of Shoreham by Sea.
Buncton existed as a settlement at the time of the Domesday survey in 1086, when it was called Bongetune.[1][2] Its origins lie in a manor whose land lay within two exclaves of the parish of Ashington within the Rape of Bramber, one of the six ancient subdivisions of Sussex.[3] The medieval manor house has vanished, but a 17th-century replacement still stands.[3]
The most notable building in Buncton is All Saints Church, a grade I listed building.[4] This 11th or 12th century structure is composed mainly of flint and rubble masonry with some fragments of tile salvaged from the earlier Roman building that existed nearby.[5] The church was built by the monks of neighbouring Sele Priory, and parts of the stonework show evidence of having been previously used at Sele. The church contained a curious carving, claimed by some to be an example of a sheela-na-gig, which was destroyed by an act of vandalism in 2004.[6]
Until 2007 All Saints' was a district chapel of ease, subordinate to St Mary's Church at Wiston, but in that year the status of the two buildings was reversed, with All Saints' becoming the Parish Church.
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- ↑ Fisher, E.A. (1970) The Saxon Churches of Sussex. p67
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