Church of St Michael and All Angels

About

St Michael and All Angels Church is a Grade I listed church in Colwinston, in the Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales. It became a Grade I listed building on 22 February 1963. The church is said to have been built in 1111.

The earliest mention of this parish church comes in the form of an 1141 confirmation of a donation made to the church by Maurice de Londres. The church and all of its possessions were given to the Abbey of Gloucester; this was confirmed circa 1200 when the Bishop of Landaff assigned a resident chaplain to the church. In 1254, the church was listed with a valuation of five marks.

By 1291, it was combined with the valuation of Ewenny Priory. The church has many medieval wall paintings. Traces remain on the west wall of the chancel arch, depicting the consecration of Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra and the story of the young mother who left her baby in the bathtub to attend the service and whose baby was miraculously saved from death by boiling while his mother attended the bishop's consecration.

Other subjects are interpreted as St. Vitus and the Enthronement of Thomas Becket. The building was restored in 1879.

Henry J Williams of Bristol carried out the work, in the course...