deconsecrated

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

Anchoring Little Village is the Shepherd, a 110-year-old Romanesque-style deconsecrated church that the couple bought and repurposed with the help of the Brooklyn architects Peterson Rich Office.

From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2024

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

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 George Worley