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Someone mentioned the rite for the deconsecration of cathedrals. Does anyone know how a parish church was deconsecrated in the medieval period - or indeed how it is done nowadays? I am having surprising difficulty finding out. Our Museum of Welsh Life at St Fagans is currently reconstructing a medieval church with a remarkable set of wall paintings. The church was deconsecrated in the 1970s but the diocese seems to have no recollection of how it was done. Maddy Dr Madeleine Gray, in the foothills of God's golden county of Gwent (Department of Humanities and Science UWCN Caerleon Campus PO Box 179 Newport NP18 3YG Tel: +44 (0)1633.432675 http://humanities.newport.ac.uk/history.html) 'Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought'