All Hallows' Church, Sutton-on-the-Forest

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All Hallows' Church is the parish church of Sutton-on-the-Forest in North Yorkshire, England. It probably began in the 1300s, mainly wooden with a stone chancel. The outer walls were rebuilt in stone in the early 1400s, and the tower was added at the end of that century. Laurence Sterne was the vicar from 1741 to 1760. In 1876 most of the church was demolished, including the remaining wooden parts, a rebuilding that has been described as regrettable because the old structure was unique. The church became a Grade II listed building in 1960.

Today the church is built of stone with a slate roof and includes a nave, a north aisle, a south porch, a chancel with a north vestry and chapel, and a west tower. The tower has three levels, buttresses, a stair turret to the southeast, a south clock face, two-light bell openings, a decorative moulding, and a crenellated top with gargoyles and pinnacles. The porch and nave also have crenellated tops, and the porch doorway is a decorative arched entrance.

Inside there is a 15th-century stoup and piscina, several 18th-century memorials, a late-17th-century altar table, an 18th-century hexagonal oak pulpit, and a 1673 alms box.