The parish of Wickmere lies in northeastern Norfolk about 5 miles north of the market town of Aylsham. Wickmere sits in lanes about 3 miles west of the A140 (Norwich to Cromer) road. Wickmere is not a large village, most properties lie around an oblong of tiny lanes but all services have left the village nowadays. The area is largely intensively arable, Wickmere sits on a very level tract of land with few contours other than to its east where the shallow valley of the Scarrow Beck heads south to join the Bure. Many of the fields are large and crops such as cereals, sugar-beet and oilseed dominate the landscape. Wickmere parish was typically small at just 1,000 acres, parishes in the area being typically small and reflecting denser populations in mediaeval tomes. Today Wickmere is something of a quiet backwater an attraction for our times.

St Andrew's church sits in splendid isolation, just a couple of farms for company, almost a half mile to the northwest of most properties in the village and overlooking a vast agricultural plain. The round tower immediately alerts that this is an old church, Pevsner notes the use of herringbone courses in the lower courses of the western tower and confers a Norman date to not only this feature but also the origins of both nave & chancel. The latter parts were modified much over the centuries, chiefly during the 14th century, using the Decorated style, and later in the 16th showing Perpendicular features. Documentary sources confirm a date close to 1535 for the addition of the northern aisle for example. As is usual there was a restoration in the 19th century, here in 1866 which refreshed many windows (maintaining their original styles) and rebuilt the southern porch. The church is separated solely by a low fence from the lane and the churchyard has been left to nature, the site is quite open with few impediments to photography.