Chapels in gold attended by a group of members in blue? (9)
'in blue?' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'chapels in gold attended by a group' is the wordplay.
'chapels in gold' becomes 'cons' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'attended by' says to put letters next to each other.
'a group' becomes 'table' (table is a kind of group).
'cons'+'table'='CONSTABLE'
'of members' acts as a link.
This may not be correct. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for constable that I've seen before include "Artist; police officer" , "He painted" , "PC" , "English landscape painter for a policeman" , "Did he have a brush" .)
'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".)