The parish of Sutton lies in eastern Norfolk about 1 mile southeast of the small market town of Stalham and not too far from Norfolk's eastern, North Sea, coast. Sutton is a long strip of a village running for almost a mile along the former route of the A149 road which connects Cromer with Great Yarmouth, that route has been moved westwards and rebuilt on the former Midland & Great Northern Railway route between the two towns. In recent times Stalham has grown steadily southwards until the two settlements are now contiguous. At the time of this transcript Sutton would have been underpinned by arable farming, however its broad, connected to the River Ant, and its staithe gave it access to the river traffic of the wherries as well as the usual assets of Broadland namely reed for thatching and wildfowling. Sutton's former corn windmill, a nine-floor tower of 1859 is a major local landmark and in 1976 was restored and opened to the public as a fascinating museum.

St Michael's church sits a little to the east of the village on the western side of Church Road. The church is a fairly typical example of a 14th century Norfolk church in flint. The earliest structures are early 14th century and utilise the Decorated style of that era, good examples are seen in the unbuttressed western tower as well as the southern arcade. Showing a build throughout the 14th century the later Perpendicular style is represented by the southern porch, reduced in size from its original two-stories and by most of the windows of the northern face. The church received not one but two Victorian restorations, the initial one of 1848 being later overridden in 1891. A small parking area is found immediately south of the site allowing a car or two to get off the narrow lane. The churchyard, typically for Norfolk, surrounded by a flint & brick wall, has arched wooden gates leading to a gravel pathway and the church. Sadly the church sits tightly towards the southern edge of the churchyard removing the favoured aspects from the photographers arsenal and making for a tricky subject on a sunny day.