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A church building in Katoomba, Australia, converted into a restaurant. Deconsecration, also referred to as decommissioning or secularization (a term also used for confiscation of church property), [1] is the removal of a religious sanction and blessing from something that had been previously consecrated for spiritual use.
Unhallowed Ground may refer to: Unhallowed ground, ground that has not been hallowed, or consecrated Unconsecrated parts of a cemetery; Unhallowed Ground, a 2015 British independent horror film "Unhallowed Ground", a song by Midnight Syndicate from the 2002 album Vampyre
Sambo's Grave is the burial site of a black cabin boy or slave on unconsecrated ground in a field near the small village of Sunderland Point, Lancashire, England. Sunderland Point was a port, serving cotton, sugar and slave ships from the West Indies and North America, which declined after Glasson Dock was opened in 1787.
An Anglican cemetery with a chapel designed by William Flockton and a landscape laid out by Robert Marnock [6] was consecrated alongside the Nonconformist cemetery in 1846—the wall that divided the unconsecrated and consecrated ground can still be seen today. By 1916 the cemetery was rapidly filling up and running out of space, burials in ...
Similarly, the original cemetery contained roughly equal areas of consecrated and unconsecrated ground. The two chapels have now been demolished, as has a gothic lodge near the main entrance. [2] The gardener's lodge survives as the University of Leicester chaplaincy, and the ornate 1895 entrance gates are still in place. A modern visitor's ...
A central alley runs through the cemetery and separates the consecrated grounds to the north and the unconsecrated grounds to the south. It is one of 16 cemeteries across the city that is maintained by Sheffield City Council. [2]
The victim is suddenly killed and buried where they fell, on unconsecrated ground. There is often a love triangle, with one or two of the participants killed in a fit of passion. [12] Author Stella Pope Duarte describes the story as ""the 'Romeo and Juliet' of the Latino world." [13] One version associates the site with a ranch hand named Juan ...
The first grave in Nunhead was dug in October 1840. The average annual number of burials over the ten years 1868–1878 was 1685: 1350 in the consecrated, and 335 in the unconsecrated ground. [6] Reinterred remains were removed from the cemetery in 1867 and 1933 from the site of the demolished St Christopher le Stocks church in the City of London.