Cryptic crossword clue
Feature of Church, special, I linked with Religious Education 5

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SPIRE

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The straight part
We know that "Feature of Church" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case feature of church = spire.
The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does SPIRE mean?

SPIRE noun
  1. The stalk or stem of a plant.
  2. A young shoot of a plant; a spear.
  3. Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.
  4. A sharp or tapering point.
  5. A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof.
  6. The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
  7. A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.
SPIRE verb
  1. (of a seed, plant etc.) to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate.
  2. To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally.
  3. To furnish with a spire.
SPIRE verb
  1. To breathe.
SPIRE noun
  1. One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil.
  2. A spiral.
  3. The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.

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