deconsecrated

Example Sentences

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As the population of the village fell, it was deconsecrated, so Mr Churches and his wife Jenny decided to buy the building.

From BBC • May 27, 2025

Terry McKeown, the project manager with Sailortown Regeneration, said people were very upset when the church was deconsecrated and the pulpit was removed.

From BBC • Oct. 30, 2022

The artworks were rediscovered by a Zimbabwean who recognized the name Cyrene on the boxes when the church was being deconsecrated, according to a press release by organizers of the exhibition in Harare.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 10, 2022

Dress got deconsecrated and inclusivity became a necessity.

From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2022

It stood on the ground where the old Southwark Town Hall was afterwards built, itself a perpetuation of the secular uses to which the deconsecrated church was put before it was destroyed.

From Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See by Worley, George