Container from church is in France (5)
I believe the answer is:
chest
'container' is the definition.
(I know that chest is a type of container)
'church is in france' is the wordplay.
'church' becomes 'ch' (abbreviation on maps etc).
'is in france' becomes 'est' ('is' in French).
'ch'+'est'='CHEST'
'from' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for chest that I've seen before include "Piece of furniture" , "Box - breast" , "Part of body; storage box" , "Box or trunk" , "Trunk or crate" .)