The parish of Antingham lies in northeastern Norfolk about 2 miles northwest of the market town of North Walsham. Antingham is a bit of a straggle of a village running between the busy A149 road (which connects North Walsham with Cromer) and the railway line (Cromer to Norwich). Antingham is a farming settlement, like so many in Norfolk it is intensely arable today but would probably have been a little more varied (utilising crop rotation) at the time of this transcript. The A149 which cuts through the parish has been widened in the late 20th century and forms something of a barrier between village and hall when once they were united. Antingham lends its name, or possibly the other way around, to the River Ant, one of Broadland's significant rivers, which has its source in the parish before winding through to Great Yarmouth.

St Mary's church sits at the southwestern end of the village, cheek-by-jowl with the A149 but tucked away in a cutoff lane. The windows are the clue to dating this church and an almost complete set of Decorated style windows grace the nave and chancel. Their style gives a short window of between 1330 & 1350 for the main body of the church. The western tower, by contrast, shows a Perpendicular style in its belfry windows and the tower was probably added in what would have been a continuous build across the fashion change, late 14th century. The roofing has been renewed or replaced later and a typical Victorian restoration, in this case in 1864, made the usual changes. Interestingly the ruins of St Margaret lie within the same churchyard, the former church was probably 12th century and Romanesque in style but was abandoned in the late 16th century. Church Lane would have once been the lane connecting village and hall, it is now severed by the A149, it is narrow but has sufficient room for some careful parking. The hedged churchyard has metal gates at the northwestern corner to grant access and is open with few obstructions to photography.