The parish of Roudham lies in southern Norfolk not too far from the border with neighbouring Suffolk. Roudham is located about 6 miles northeast of the market town of Thetford and sits just south of both the busy A11 (Norwich to London) road and the Norwich to Thetford rail line. There is very little to Roudham, no village as such, just a scatter of farms and cottages across the heath of this Breckland area. The inhabitants of the parish would have largely earned their incomes from farming chiefly sheep and rabbits, the poor soil being light and sandy does not make for arable farming. Today the area is dotted with piggeries whilst arable farming is achieved by extensive irrigation and application of fertilisers.

St Andrew's church lies in ruins the victim of accidental fire whilst building renovations were underway. The church sits at the western end of Roudham Road within a maintained site behind wooden fencing. Since much detail was lost Pevsner only dates the western tower remains which show the Decorated style of the early 14th century, the remainder, if typical of a Norfolk church, would probably be a mixture of this style and the later Perpendicular which followed in the latter half of the same century. A remote site but atmospheric under the big Breckland skies.