Desk I found in various rectories (10)
I believe the answer is:
escritoire
'desk' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'i found in various rectories' is the wordplay.
'found in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'various' indicates an anagram.
'rectories' is an anagram of 'escritore'.
'i' inserted into 'escritore' is 'ESCRITOIRE'.
(Other definitions for escritoire that I've seen before include "Support for author" , "Writing desk" , "Furniture item" .)