The parish of Sharrington lies in northern Norfolk about 3 miles west of the small market town of Holt. Sharrington is a small and fairly scattered settlement, with no clearly defined village centre, which sits immediately south of the A148 road which connects Holt with Fakenham. A network of narrow lanes extending in an arc around Sharrington Hall (a 16th century Elizabeth-plan house) forms the basic structure of the village and on which sits mostly a scatter of farms and cottages. Like most Norfolk parishes Sharrington would have been primarily involved in arable farming and early gazetteers indicate over 90% of the parish acreage would have been set to crops of mainly cereals. Sharrington stands on a plateau of ground at or close to 50 metres above sea level with broad fields under vast skies, a typical Norfolk landscape for some.

All Saints' church sits on the southwestern edge of Sharrington on the south side of Bale Road, a narrow lane which leads westwards across the A148 to that other village. This is a church predominantly of the early to mid 13th century with much of the architecture in the Decorated style fashionable at those dates. Pevsner gives a more specific date of 1310 for the chancel where the intersecting tracery of the east window is typical of its period. The church has received major work during two significant periods, in or around 1800 the aisles were removed, Pevsner believes the Perpendicular style windows which would have been removed with them were then reset into the remaining nave walls. Furthermore in 1880 a major restoration saw the construction of the present roofing which is continuous across nave and chancel. The only significant change since those periods has been the addition of a brick vestry in 1908. Bale Road is narrow but the verge permits parking for a car outside the gates. A typical flint and brick wall surrounds with wooden gates granting entry to a churchyard free of photographic obstacles.