Brilliant Independent covering church feature (8)
I believe the answer is:
inspired
'brilliant' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)
'independent covering church feature' is the wordplay.
'independent' becomes 'ind' (politics abbreviation).
'covering' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'church feature' becomes 'spire' (spire is part of a church building).
'ind' enclosing 'spire' is 'INSPIRED'.
(Other definitions for inspired that I've seen before include "caused" , "Unexpectedly accurate (guess)" , "Gave impetus to" , "Stirred to action, fired up" , "Invigorated to do well" .)