Middleton-on-Sea [disappeared?]

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.