St Robert's Cave and Chapel of the Holy Cross

St Robert's Cave and the Chapel of the Holy Cross
St Robert's Chapel and the Chapel of the Holy Rood
The entrance to St Robert's Cave
LocationKnaresborough, North Yorkshire
OS gridSE351564
Coordinates53°59′59″N 1°27′03″W / 53.9996°N 1.4508°W / 53.9996; -1.4508
Entrances1
HazardsCaution required.
AccessBy a steps and a path

The early 13th century St Robert's Cave and Chapel of the Holy Cross, also known with variants such as St Robert's Chapel and Chapel of the Holy Rood,[1] are located on Abbey Road beside the River Nidd in its gorge at Knaresborough. The cave is a rare example of a medieval hermitage, cut out of the magnesian limestone river gorge with a domestic area externally and the chapel of the Holy Cross which originally housed the saint's grave.[2][3]

The trustees of the site are the monks of Ampleforth Abbey and in 1989 the Harrogate Museums Service carried out excavations after clearing the site.[4]

  1. ^ Saint Roberts Cave, Also Called Saint Roberts Chapel
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