Church Of St Peter

CLEASBY CLEASBY NZ 21 SW 4/9 Church of St Peter 18.3.68

GV II

Church. Rebuilt, incorporating some earlier fabric, in 1828, restored and refitted 1878. Sandstone ashlar, Westmorland slate roofs. 4-bay nave with west porch and bellcote, 2-bay chancel with north vestry. Nave: stepped buttresses at ends and centre; two 2-light pointed-arched windows with Y-tracery and hoodmoulds; eaves band; ashlar coping; 2-light gabled west belfry. North side of older fabric, cobbled, and with some carved stones; 2 matching windows. West end: stepped buttresses flanking gabled porch with board leaved door in pointed-arched opening under hoodmould and similar inner doorway having Y-traceried, leaded overlight, band at eaves level; blind quatrefoil in gable. Chancel: 1 matching window, eaves band, ashlar coping to right; 3-light matching east window. Interior: 4-centred double- chamfered chancel arch with label on octagonal responds; early C20 ashlar low chancel screen incorporating pulpit and reading desk, all pierced with Gothic tracery; ashlar walls to chancel; scissor-truss roofs; retooled C13 font on newer plinth, having square bowl with roll moulding at angles and edges, and on each face a quatrefoil; on south wall of nave, tablet recording augmentation of perpetual curacy under Queen Anne's Bounty in 1816, also by John Robinson, Lord Bishop of London, who was born in Cleasby; in south window of chancel, C18 yellow enamelled glass, formerly in the west window of Bristol Cathedral, inserted there in 1710 in memory of John Robinson, Bishop of Bristol, and moved to Cleasby in 1906. VCH i, pp 158- 159.

Listing NGR: NZ2491913074