Church location most suitable to house religious figure (6)
I believe the answer is:
vestry
'church location' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'most suitable to house religious figure' is the wordplay.
'most suitable' becomes 'very' (as in 'the very thing').
'to house' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'religious figure' becomes 'st' (abbreviation for saint).
'very' going around 'st' is 'VESTRY'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for vestry that I've seen before include "Storage and dressing room in a church" , "Somewhere in church" , "Office room in church" , "Church sacristy" , "Church room where clergy dress themselves" .)