There was an inn called the Half Moon in Grundisburgh, which was still selling beer in the early twentieth century, but is now a private house, while the Dog – a pleasant and welcoming place – thought to be named after the spectral hound (although the current inn sign portrays a beagle), still looks across the attractive green to the church. There is no record that either of these taverns existed before the seventeenth century, but a village of Grundisburgh’s size and importance would have had at least one.
The church at Grundisburgh has been largely rebuilt since the fourteenth century, and has been provided with a startling eighteenth-century red-brick tower. However, the fourteenth-century wall painting of St Margaret still looks down from the chancel wall, and the piscina dates from Bartholomew’s time. The church looks over a village green that is thought to date from when a charter was granted for a Tuesday market and a Pentecost Week fair in 1285. A stream still trickles through the middle of it, although there are footbridges provided for those not wishing to brave the fords. It is a peaceful village with friendly inhabitants. Whether scholars from Michaelhouse ever visited in 1353, to secure the advowson for their College, is not known, but there is no reason to suppose they did not.