HELENS (ST.), a town and parish in the liberty of EAST-MEDINA, Isle of Wight division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON, 9 miles (E.) from Newport, containing 804 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester, endowed with £200 private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and £1200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Provost and Fellows of Eton College. The ancient church was partly taken down at the commencement of the last century, in consequence of encroachments made by the sea, but the tower was left standing as a land-mark. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. Here was a priory of Cluniac monks, the site of which is now occupied by a modern mansion called the Priory: in an adjacent wood are some remains of an ancient watch-tower. This parish is bpunded on the east by the English channel, on the north by Spithead, and on the south by Brading harbour.