The parish of Wheatacre lies in the extreme southeast of Norfolk forming a stretch, here formed by the River Waveney, of the border with neighbouring Suffolk. Wheatacre is located roughly 5 miles northeast of the Suffolk market town of Beccles and sits within a peninsula of Norfolk land that penetrates into northern Suffolk and which sits within a vast loop of the Waveney.
Wheatacre is a relatively small place running almost imperceptibly into Burgh St Peter and having only small concentrations of properties in a loose aggregation between the Hall and church and to the east of the latter. Wheatacre's position gave it access to both the typical arable land of eastern Norfolk but also granted the parish extensive grazing marshes which stretch for almost a mile to the south of the Waveney's course and provided good pasture as well as the typical Broadland pastimes of reed harvesting for thatch, wildfowling and river-based transportation of produce on the iconic wherries.

All Saints' church sits on the northern side of Church Road which heads west and then north toward the hall. Pevsner quite rightly highlights the western tower as the church's centrepiece, a 16th century tower of a mixture of local flint and red brick in an elaborate chequerboard pattern that Pevsner, quite rightly, calls "handsome". Documentary evidence, in the form of donations in wills, record donations for the bells in 1506 and for the "steeple", an unusual bequest as there is none perhaps an unrequited wish, in 1522. Whilst the tower is from the very last era of the Perpendicular the remainder of the church is typical 14th century and a mixture of that style and the Decorated style that preceded it. Whilst it may be 14th century it has certainly received thorough change in the Victorian era such that to Pevsner's eye the exterior is almost totally Victorian, the 19th century work being largely completed in 1879 whilst a year later the parapet was added to top off the tower which makes the church unique. Whilst Church Road is narrow the site is set back between trees with a short gravel drive to the metal entrance gates, a careful driver can park a car in that area without blocking access. Whilst there are a few trees around within the churchyard they can be easily avoided by the photographer.