deconsecrated

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The deconsecrated Suffolk church is currently the location of bell-ringing training for a band of campanologists getting ready to ring for the King's coronation.

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2023

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 parish and school were closed by the archdiocese of New York in 2015 before the church was deconsecrated two years later.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 11, 2021

Vibiana’s — no “saint,” deconsecrated and sans stained glass — is now a happening party space.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 27, 2021

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