Capel Colman - St. Colman.

This living is now a perpetual curacy held in plurality with Llanfihangel Penbedw. It was formerly a chapelry, and so far as can be judged, was from 1394 to 1492 held with the chapel of Cilvowir, in the parish of Manordeifi; at all events the only references during that period to Capel Colman, or Llangolman, as it was then called, show that the 'custos' or incumbent of the one chapel also held the other.

The Valor Eccl. makes no mention of this benefice, although it gives particulars of the chapel of 'Kileveweir'. In 1594 Capel Colman was in the hands of the Queen, but about that period it seems to have been, at all events temporarily abandoned.---Owen's Pem., Pt. 2, p. 297.

That the chapel was abandoned prior to 1721, so far as religious services were concerned, is plainly shown by the following extract :---'There are some churches that are totally neglected, and that very rarely, it at all, have any service performed in them, and which, if they are not converted into barns and stables, which is the case of many churches in England as well as Wales, do only serve for the solitary habitations of owles and jackdaws, such are St. Daniels, Castelham, Kilvawyr, Mounton, Capel Colman, and others in Pembrokeshire.---View of State of Religion in the Diocese of St. Davids about the beginning of the 18th Century,' by E[rasmus] S[aunders], D.D., published in 1721.

The tithes and ancient endowments of Capel Colman were presumably all seized by the Crown, but the church has gradually been re-endowed during the past two hundred years.

On 18 Jan., 1895, a faculty was obtained for the restoration of this church.

Perpetual Curates.

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