deconsecrated

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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

The whole presentation will take place in San Paolo Converso, a deconsecrated Catholic church built over about three decades, from 1549 to 1580, and now used as an art space.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2023

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

In 2015, the parish of All Saints merged with that of the Church of St. Charles Borromeo, on West 141st Street, and in 2017 All Saints was deconsecrated.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 25, 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