It is in Helmingham and Coddenham ward in the Mid Suffolk local authority, in the East of England region.

Geographically Crowfield village is approximately 9 miles (14 km) NNW from Ipswich, the county town of Suffolk.

The settlement was recorded in Old English as Groffeud or Groffeld, implying that it was just a croft-field (a small enclosure).

Politically, Crowfield Parish is in the Helmingham and Coddenham Ward, which lies in the District of Mid Suffolk.

The design therefore depicts All Saints Church surrounded by arable fields, with motifs representing grapes and wheat, a windmill and a cart wheel.

Although once a Chapel of Ease to St Marys, Coddenham, it is independent and has its own parochial church council.

The entrance to the church from the road is at grid reference 52°10'34.38"N, 1° 8'1.39"E It is known that there has been a place of worship on this site for 600 years, and that the building retains its Norman footprint of a nave and chancel, with the porch and bell turret added later.

Inside, the porch is spanned by fine arch-braces, the spandrels of which are beautifully carved with foliage, faces, flowers, wheels and other motifs which merit close scrutiny.

The inner entrance arch has been renewed and its hood-mould rests on corbels depicting the three mitres of the Diocese of Norwich and a bishop.

William Kene, yeoman, in 1549 bequeathed four pounds 'to maintain God's service, to be paid £1 a year, if so be that the chapel do continue; if not I Will it shall be given in deeds of charity to the poor'.

An archaeological excavation on the island in 2008, revealed ‘building foundations, together with 12th to 14th-century pottery with a few sherds (historic or prehistoric fragments of pottery) perhaps slightly earlier and later.’ For a number of years during the 1670s and 1680s a bitter and protracted dispute was kept up between the inhabitants of Crowfield and the Vicar and parish officers of Coddenham, concerning the provision to be made for services at All Saints', the chapel of ease in Crowfield.

But when the Bishop of Norwich, Anthony Sparrow, conducted his visitation in 1676, he ordered the inhabitants of Crowfield to repair the chapel and provide it with suitable ornaments.

They were unwilling to carry out the work without an undertaking from William Smith, the Vicar of Coddenham and Sir Nicholas Bacon the Patron that services would once again be performed there.

Upon its completion the Ipswich Journal commented that 'This is undoubtedly the most costly and choice piece of church restoration that has come to our notice for many years and the chapel is now a perfect model of chaste and elaborate design and finish.'

When he visited in 1824, the state of the church in the early 19th century is described the notes of the ecclesiologist David Elisha Davy.

[3] Visiting in 1824, he recorded that both roofs were hidden by plaster ceilings; there were uniform box pews throughout; the pulpit was painted white, and the small font had a square bowl.

The architect for the restoration was Edmund Charles Hakewill, who had designed two churches in East London, before moving to Suffolk.

The large three-light windows added at that time are supported inside by double trefoil arches springing from a central shaft.

Two grotesques, one human head, one animal found elsewhere in the church were placed in the external western wall level with the gable ends.

By the time of Davy's visit in 1824, the original bell turret had been replaced by a cupola with a domed top as can be seen in Isaac Johnson's drawing of 1818.

One account of the 1862 restoration says that the plaster was removed from the chancel walls, revealing for the first time in many years, the lovely windows.

It retains much of its original 15th-century stonework and hood mould although the corbel heads and part of the arch were renewed during the 1862 restoration.

The communion rail dates from the 18th century and the present altar table came from the now redundant St. Andrews church, Mickfield, in 1985.

On the east wall are fixed zinc plaques denoting the Lord's Prayer, the Creed and the Commandments.

Other members of the family, who are buried in a vault beneath the altar, are commemorated by brass plaques on the chancel walls.

One on the north side commemorates William Springfield and the other, which is opposite, has its inscription hidden by the wooden floor.

So much so that the church was chosen as the main feature for the village sign which was commissioned in celebration of the Diamond Jubilee of HM Queen Elizabeth II in 2012.

Unveiled on 1 February 2014, the village sign also carries a number of motifs copied from the wooden carvings and the stained glass windows of the church.

On 16 January 2017 a police blockade begun, due to concerns for a man who is holed up in his home, possibly with a weapon.

[4] The parish register began in England in 1538 when Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's Vicar General, ordered that each parish priest must keep a book, and that the Parson, in the presence of the wardens, must enter all the baptisms, marriages and burials of the previous week.