Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a church that was rebuilt in 1828, incorporating some earlier materials, and was restored and refitted in 1878. It is constructed of sandstone ashlar with Westmorland slate roofs. The building features a four-bay nave with a west porch and a bellcote, and a two-bay chancel with a north vestry. The nave has stepped buttresses at both ends and the center, and two two-light pointed-arched windows with Y-tracery and hoodmoulds. There is an eaves band and ashlar coping, along with a two-light gabled west belfry. The north side contains older fabric with cobbles and some carved stones, as well as two matching windows. The west end has stepped buttresses flanking a gabled porch, which features a board-leaved door in a pointed-arched opening under a hoodmould, and a similar inner doorway with a Y-traceried leaded overlight. There is a band at eaves level and a blind quatrefoil in the gable.

The chancel includes one matching window, an eaves band, and ashlar coping to the right, along with a three-light matching east window. Inside, there is a four-centred double-chamfered chancel arch with a label on octagonal responds. The early 20th-century ashlar low chancel screen incorporates a pulpit and reading desk, all pierced with Gothic tracery. The chancel has ashlar walls and scissor-truss roofs. There is a retooled 13th-century font on a newer plinth, featuring a square bowl with roll moulding at the angles and edges, and a quatrefoil on each face. On the south wall of the nave, there is a tablet recording the augmentation of the perpetual curacy under Queen Anne's Bounty in 1816, also by John Robinson, Lord Bishop of London, who was born in Cleasby. The south window of the chancel contains 18th-century yellow enamelled glass, which was 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.