Reflect on revealing wear on small church (9)
I believe the answer is:
reminisce
'reflect' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'revealing wear on small church' is the wordplay.
'revealing wear' becomes 'res' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'on' means one lot of letters goes inside another (as in clothing \'on\' a person).
'small' becomes 'mini' (I've seen this before).
'church' becomes 'ce' (abbreviation for Church of England).
'res' going around 'mini' is 'reminis'.
'reminis'+'ce'='REMINISCE'
'on' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for reminisce that I've seen before include "Think of past events" , "Give account of past" , "Look back at events" , "Have fond recollections" , "talk about the old days" .)