Middleton-on-Sea [disappeared?]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: the modern church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gordon Griffiths, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 November 2010 by Gordon Griffiths [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2451673] [accessed 25 September 2012]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 18192MID
Church/Chapel: Old Parish Church of St. Nicholas [destroyed ca. 1838]
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Country Name: England
Location: West Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located E of Bognor Regis and Felpham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Avisford -- Rape of Arundel -- Sussex
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 5, pt. 1, 1997) notes: "There was a church at Middleton in 1086. [...] The old church of St. Nicholas [...] may have incorporated part of the building mentioned in 1086, [...] but the window forms and the four-bayed south aisle arcade depicted shortly before its destruction were 13th-century [...] the sea had reached to within a few feet of the building by 1789 [...] A very high tide early in 1838 virtually destroyed what was left of the building, rendering it unusable; [...] the ruins survived in 1847 [...] but had disappeared by c. 1849. [...] The new church, with the same dedication, [...] was consecrated in 1849"; the VCH entry (ibid.) further notes that the medieval font survived into the late-18th century.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 667752 5629719
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-09-25 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.