| PASCHAL | Father takes Sarah round Church of the Passover |
| SECEDES | Sees round Church of England diocese to start with, but formally withdraws membership (7) |
| PASCHALLAMB | In the Old Testament, the young sheep killed and eaten on the first day of the Passover (7,4) |
| SEDER | The ritual for the first night of the passover |
| MOSES | Hero of the Passover Seder |
| TOMB | The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Thetford, is the only surviving remains in England of a priory who aided pilgrims to Christ's ... (4) |
| RURALDEAN | Man of the church, of the country, and the East perhaps (5,4) |
| COLANDER | A chinois-like kitchen strainer, adopted by "Pastafarians" as the symbolic headgear of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (8) |
| NAZARETH | Home of the Latin Church of the Annunciation |
| BARABBAS | Robber in the New Testament released at the Passover instead of Jesus |
| YETIS | What members of the Church of the SubGenius parody religion claim to be descended from |
| BESEECH | Request to be the church of the diocese (7) |
| BANNS | Formal nuptial notice in the parish church of the betrothed (5) |
| SAINTMAYBE | Anne Tyler novel set partly at the Church of the Second Chance |
| DISENDOW | Deprive a church of the property it receives from the state (8) |
| PENTECOST | Jewish festival held on the fiftieth day after the Passover (9) |
| GAUDI | Antonio ___, Spanish architect famous for his designs for the church of the Holy Family in Barcelona |
| SPANISHSTEPS | Stairway in Rome leading up to the church of the Santissima Trinita dei Monti (7,5) |
| ANTONIO | Spanish architect whose works include the church of the Sagrada familia in Barcelona (7,5) |
| STCLEMENT | Central church of the RAF situated on an island site in the Strand in London (2,7,5) |
