It's been suggested that the Green Chapel of the Green Knight might be based on this cave... the suggestion [was] initially advanced by Mabel Day ('Introduction to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight', EETS 210, 1940, p. xx) and developed and articulated in closer detail by Robert Kaske ('Gawain's Green Chapel and the Cave at Wetton Mill', Medieval Literature and Folklore Studies 1972, pp. 111ff.)..
..Having visited the site, I must admit that the case.. seems rather intriguing. A short distance from the stream a rugged knoll, overgrown with grass and weeds and with a crevice=like, rock-strewn cave about thirty feet long extending most of the way through it, tops a rather steep slope, separated from the stream only by a narrow gravel road. The knoll is faced at a distance of about three hundred yards across the stream by a forbidding-looking fissure-like hole leading into a deep, narrow cavern in the towering rock known as Ossom's Crag topping a steep hillside. Here, then, the 'Green Chapel' would be facing the hole in the rock whence the Green Knight so dramatically emerges... Anyway after all that waffle, I think a more commonly held belief is that this part of the story is set at Lud's Church?
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Posted by Rhiannon
22nd September 2007ce
Edited 22nd September 2007ce
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