Green Chapel
The Green Chapel is the designated meeting place for the return blow in Gawain's covenant with the Green Knight, attested across 2 citations in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
The Green Chapel is the designated meeting place for the return blow in Gawain's covenant with the Green Knight, attested across 2 citations in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Gawain's host assured him that the Green Chapel "was not two miles hence" and that he "could go forth on the first of the year" (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part II, How the feast came to an end but Gawain abode at the castle). A squire later directed Gawain to "ride down by the rock to the valley" to find it (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part IV, Sir Gawain is none dismayed).
Both citations come from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The Green Chapel functions as a spatial anchor for the poem's climax, its nearness to the host's castle underscoring the revelation that host and challenger are the same figure. The directions given -- down by the rock, into the valley -- locate it in a specific landscape that contrasts with the splendour of the castle.