The phrase "a defunct church" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a church that is no longer in operation or has ceased to exist.
Example: "The town's history is marked by the remnants of a defunct church that once served as a community gathering place."
Alternatives: "an abandoned church" or "a closed church".
The belfry was restored, and equipped with fifteen bells, salvaged from various defunct churches.
Last month, the group took over a defunct boarding kennel in Falls Church that can accommodate up to 200 of the animals it has been taking from the hurricane zones.
She was from a Mormon family, and their home was a defunct fraternity house that the Mormon church had somehow come to own, a large, yellowish, three-storied cube of a thing, in the middle of a well-kept green lawn on a corner plot at the intersection of two relatively busy roads.
In the last two weeks, Kuhner's Web site, Insight, the last remnant of a defunct conservative print magazine owned by the Unification Church led by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, was able to set off a wave of television commentary, talk-radio chatter, official denials, investigations by journalists around the globe and news media self-analysis that has lasted 12 days and counting.
A few days before Christmas, he pulled up in a Nissan Pathfinder — its license plate reads, "Fear This God" — and led me into his church, which is located in a building vacated by a defunct mortgage broker.
Kiez Oper, a Berlin project headed by Alex Eccleston and Rowan Hellier which brings opera into unexpected venues — e.g., a cozy and humble apartment, or a defunct communal swimming pool — premiered a new piece, "Mauerklänge" ("Wall Sounds") in a war-torn church in former East Berlin. .
Is the digital divide a defunct framework?
"Decomposition of a defunct culture.
(And the subject of a defunct blog).
Now it is a defunct orchestra.
A defunct electric stove rested on the front porch.
