grante-brigge

Updated: July 4, 2025

For within two generations of the Norman conquest, while the old wooden abbey, destroyed by fire, was being replaced by that noble pile of stone whose ruins are still standing, the French abbot of Crowland sent French monks to open a school under the new French donjon, in the little Roman town of Grante-brigge; whereby so does all earnest work, however mistaken, grow and spread in this world, infinitely and for ever St.

Charles Kingsley - Prose Idylls, New and Old