The ruined church of All Saints, Hope lies in open fields about 2 miles NW of New Romney, and about 9 miles SW of Hythe in Kent. It was probably founded in the mid-12thc and consisted of simple nave with a W gable end, and chancel. In 1849 William Holloway documented an oral tradition that it was the first church to be founded on the Marsh, its name being aspirational for future success. The parish of Hope was combined with New Romney in 1589, at which time only four houses remained. The church has been a ruin since the 17thc and has continued to deteriorate since that time, although the ruins have now been stabilised. Some scholarly investigation took place in 1925. A detailed report was published in 1995 on the basis of archaeological investigation in 1988-9.

According to the historian Edward Hasted, in his history of the county published in 1790, at the time of his visit in 1787 there was a S doorway which had Romanesque chevron ornament with a later Gothic arch inside, and a chancel arch similar to the S door. Sadly, no traces of any Romanesque work remain to be seen today, and so the engraving and description form the sole surviving evidence for this material.

The church is believed to have been founded in the newly-colonised marshland in the 12thc, but documentary evidence is lacking. Historic England reports several finds made in the vicinity, including a Papal Bull of Cellestine (1191-1198) and coins ranging in date from Edward the Confessor (1042-1066) to Henry III (1207-1272).

Edward Hasted described both the S doorway and the chancel arch, neither of which are now extant. A Romanesque doorway with a Gothic arch partially blocking it underneath can be seen in the Eastbridge Hospital, Canterbury. A doorway and chancel arch stylistically related to each other is what one sees elsewhere in the locality such as at Dymchurch. A site visit was made but no fragments were visible; the only tooled masonry was in the plain ashlar quoins of the E end wall and the presumed base of the chancel arch.