Entries from 1885 Kelly's Isle of Wight directories
for Civic, St Lawrence
see on 1904
1885 list of towns
Total number of matches found: 20
To account for missing numbers in Streets, it may be understood that either the house was empty at the time the revision was made, or let in weekly tenements, or that the information was refused.
| SAINT LAWRENCE is a parish and village on the sea coast, 9 miles south-south-east from Newport and 2 west from Ventnor. |
| The church of St. Lawrence was built in the reign of Richard I and enlarged in 1849, and is one of the smallest in England ; it is now used as a mortuary chapel. |
| The new church of St. Lawrence was opened August 6th, 1878, and was built by subscription, at a cost of 4,000GBP, and will seat about 300 persons ; it is a fine stone building in the Decorated style, by the late Sir Gilbert Scott. |
| The view from the churchyard is singularly beautiful and picturesque : the slope of the hill on which the church stands is so great that a road has been cut like a groove : on the opposite side a cliff, some hundred feet high and nearly perpendicular, towers overhead ; yet, from the richness of the soil that clings to the rocks, they are clothed with clusters of flowers and shrubs, flourishing in the crevices. |
| ROYAL NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION. |
| The Royal National Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, was first originated by Dr. Arthur Hill Hassall and the Right Hon. Sir Lawrence Peel, and built by Ingram and Son, of Ventnor, in 1869. |
| The Hon. Evelyn Cornwallis Anderson Pelham D.L., J.P. is lord of the manor and the principal landowner. |
| The area is 327 acres, the greater part of which is a slip of land forming a part of the romantic tract called the Undercliff; rateable value, 1,463GBP ; the parish contained, in 1881, 249 inhabitants, including 126 in the Consumption Hospital. |
| The children of this parish attend the schools at Whitwell & Ventnor |