Beads scattered across the chapel (8)
I believe the answer is:
bethesda
'chapel' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'beads scattered across the' is the wordplay.
'scattered' indicates an anagram.
'across' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'beads' is an anagram of 'besda'.
'besda' placed around 'the' is 'BETHESDA'.
(Other definitions for bethesda that I've seen before include "Chapel" , "church" , "Healing pool (Jerusalem)" .)