Royston Cave is a Grade I listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1976. A {C13,C14} Cave. 1 related planning application.
Royston Cave
- WRENN ID
- tenth-moulding-sunrise
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1976
- Type
- Cave
- Address
- Royston Cave, Melbourn Street, SG8 7BX
- OS grid reference
- TL 356 407
- Coordinates
- 52.04812, -0.02377
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Royston Cave is a man-made cave located beneath Melbourn Street in Royston. It has a bottle shape and is 28 feet deep, with light coming through a round grating in the pavement above. Inside, there are numerous carvings from the 13th or 14th century, depicting scenes such as a crucifixion, Saint Christopher, Saint Catherine, a king and queen, and figures on horseback. The cave was formerly painted, but the paint has now faded. There is a later entrance passage that dates back to 1790.
Local climate
Royston Cave sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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