LAWRENCE (ST.), a parish in the liberty of
EAST-MEDINA, Isle of Wight division of the county
of SOUTHAMPTON, 8 miles (S. S. E.) from Newport,
containing 96 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester,
rated in the king's books at £4, endowed with £200
private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the
patronage of .Lord Yarborough. The church is only
twenty feet long and twelve wide; the greater part of
the parish consists of a slip of land extending about a
mile and a half along the sea-shore, and forming part
of the romantic tract called Undercliff.