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
In that time, 30 churches have been deconsecrated for secular use in Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island, leaving 172 Catholic churches in those boroughs.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 25, 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.
