Lud Church (or Lud's Church) is a natural cleft in the rock, about forty feet deep, in the Peak District. A sort of small chasm. You can clamber down into it from entrances at both ends.
It is the supposed setting for the Green Chapel, which features in a scene at the end of the medieval poem, Sir Gawain & The Green Knight, which, it's thought, was written by an (anonymous) monk based at an abbey in nearby Leek.
It is an astonishing poem, and it would be sad to go through life never having experienced it.
It is an astonishing poem, and it would be sad to go through life never having experienced it.
On a gloomy day, the place can be very gloomy indeed. Sunlight never reaches certain parts of it ever, which is why the sides are covered in slime of moss.
Can this be the Chapel Green?
O Lord, said the gentle knight.
Here the Devil might say, I een,
His matins about midnight!
O Lord, said the gentle knight.
Here the Devil might say, I een,
His matins about midnight!
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