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
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
The deconsecrated church, originally built in the Middle Ages and reconstructed in the Renaissance, is the permanent home of works by sculptor Bruno Liberatore, the designer’s father.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 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.
