Possible Clues:

• Start to chew the fat, retiring by a religious building
• Naughtily had claret in religious building
• Pet turned fat, do you think? It could hold a large mass
• Where bishop sits with queen, perhaps -- he's turning fat
• Starts to chew all the fat over place of religion
• Car halted badly at the large church
• Where one worships domestic animal the man had? Really, on a regular basis!
• Lincoln is such a city — see around it
• Bishop's bailiwick
• See 6