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Chapels in gold attended by a group of members in blue? (9)

Ross

I think it could be either:

constable

oratories

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'chapels' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are plural nouns, I can't understand how one could define the other.

'gold attended by a group of members in blue?' is the wordplay.
'gold' becomes 'or' ('or' is the heraldic name for gold).
'attended by' says to put letters next to each other.
'group of members in blue?' becomes 'tories' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'or'+'a'+'tories'='ORATORIES'

'in' is the link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Another definition for oratories that I've seen is " places of worship".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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