Sentence:  A few rods farther led him past the old black Presbyterian church, with its square tower, <WSD>embowered</WSD> in a stately grove; past the Catholic church, with its many crosses, and a painted wooden figure of St. James in a recess beneath the gable; and past the old Jefferson House, once the leading hotel of the town, in front of which political meetings had been held, and political speeches made, and political hard cider drunk, in the days of "Tippecanoe and Tyler too." 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage.