The parish of Fritton lies in southern Norfolk roughly 8 miles northwest of the Suffolk market town of Bungay. Fritton sits a little over 2 miles east of the A140 road which connects the city of Norwich with Ipswich and is immediately east of the growing village of Long Stratton. Fritton is a bit of a strip village, a congregation of properties sits at the northern edge of its common, gathered around the 17th century Hall, with more stretching along the lane (The Street) to the north towards the church and Hempnall. The area is prime arable farming country, rich and fertile and largely level at 50 metres above the sea. Fritton parish was a small one in an area dominated by tiny, close-packed parishes, it covered only 900 acres of which 3/4 would have been set to cereals, a shallow valley containing a tributary of the Tas would have provided some pasture to vary the regime slightly.

St Catherine's church sits almost a half mile north of the common and is set down a dark and shady roughly surfaced track to the west of the lane leading to Hempnall. The presence of the round tower is usually indicative of an early church and St Catherine certainly has a 12th century tower to prove it. The tower was modified in the 15th century, however, to give it the octagonal top. Lancet windows in the nave and the nave's northern doorway are also indicative of a church of 12th or 13th century origins albeit much modified over the centuries. Unlike many churches these changes were wrought not only in the Victorian era but much earlier too; a southern porch was added contemporaneously with the octagonal topping to the tower, the nave was increased in height in the 16th century and the chancel restored and renewed in the 17th. Of course the Victorians too had their restoration, in this case of 1853 which replaced much of the fenestration whilst as recently as 1913 the nave roof was replaced. As you head north from the village a small blue sign indicates the track leading to the site which sits within a group of concealing trees. Parking can be found outside the lychgate which grants access, sadly the churchyard is narrow on a north to south axis limiting severely the angles which are available to the photographer.