The parish of Tacolneston lies in southern Norfolk about 5 miles south of the market town of Wymondham. Tacolneston lies on the B1113 road which connects the city of Norwich with New Buckenham. Tacolneston is a fairly dispersed and linear village with properties dotted along the route of the B1113 from the church at the Norwich end almost contiguously with the Forncetts to the southwest. At the time of this transcript Tacolneston would have been a typical Norfolk village dominated by arable farming, little has changed apart from a few more homes and their owners making the commute to the nearby city. The parish sits on a plateau away from the nearby valley of the Tas making for a broad and largely flat landscape typical of this area of south-central Norfolk. Tacolneston has a brief footnote to fame, in being chosen as the site of one of Norfolk's television transmitter masts making it briefly famous in those pre-satellite days.

All Saints sits at the northeastern edge of the village on the western side of the B1113 where it describes a pronounced turn to the west. Almost the entire church can be dated to the late Perpendicular period, documentary evidence, cited by Pevsner, mentions donations for building the church dated in a will of 1507, although the church was probably started in the late 15th century. A typical Perpendicular church of nave & chancel, augmented by a five-bay southern arcade, with a western tower, Pevsner states there is little of architectural interest specific to this church. For once there is no mention of a Victorian restoration although one undoubtedly took place it was clearly sensitive and minimal. The church is set back behind screening trees with a small parking area on the village side of the entrance. A gravel pathway leads through the trees to a pair of wooden gates, the churchyard is open and relatively free of photographic obstacles.