I pakaru te huarahi i te urupā o te whare karakia i te pānga. I takoto ngā poraka uku me te moata nui ki runga i te tarutaru e karapoti ana. I te taha o te huarahi, pērā i te pihi chess pakaru, kei reira ngā toenga o te tihi o te whare karakia 150-tau te pakeke. I ētahi haora kua pahure ake nei, i tū ia i te tihi rawa o te whare karakia, e tū ana i runga ake i te urupā. He waimarie, i hinga te whare Wikitōria ki te whenua, ehara i te mea nā te tuanui o te whare karakia. Mō ngā take kāore i te mōhiotia i nāianei, ko te Whare Karakia o Hato Tamati i Wells tētahi o ngā whare karakia Ingarihi torutoru he pourewa kei te kokonga raki-mā-rāwhiti.
He poto noa iho te rārangi o ngā tāngata hei waea atu i tēnei āhuatanga ohorere. Nā James Preston, 37 tau te pakeke, i whakautu te waea. He kaimahi kohatu, he kaihanga pourewa hoki a Preston, ā, e pā ana āna mahi ki te nuinga o ngā whare tawhito kei roto i te Ladybug Book of British History: Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, Stonehenge, Longleat, Ladd Cliff Camera me Whitby Abbey, hei tauira noa iho.
I hopukina te hinganga o te tihi e tētahi hoa noho i te tihi o te Āwhā o Eunice i te marama o Pēpuere. I taku tūtakitanga ki a Preston i ngā marama e ono i muri mai, ka whakakitea mai e ia ki ahau te awheawhe i hangaia ai te tihi hou, ā, ka haria ahau ki te Whare Karakia o Hato Tāmati. I muri i te taraiwa i te 20 maero, ka kōrero mai a Preston, he huruhuru, he parauri, mō te whānuitanga o ngā toka i te Whenua Hauāuru. Mai i te tirohanga matawhenua, kei raro mātou i te whitiki kōhatu ūolitiki i kopikopiko i roto i a Oxford me Bath tae noa ki York, ā, i hangaia i te wā o Jurassic, i te wā i noho te nuinga o ngā Cotswolds i ngā moana pārūrū. Tirohia tētahi whare taone ataahua o Georgian i Bath, i tētahi whare iti rānei o te kaiwhatu i Gloucestershire, ā, ka kite koe i ngā anga tawhito me ngā kōhatu whetu. Ko te kōhatu kaukau he "kōhatu ūolitiki ngohengohe" - ko te tikanga o te "oolites" he "kirikiri", e pā ana ki ngā matūriki porowhita e hanga ana - "engari kei a mātou a Hamstone me te kōhatu Doulting, kātahi ka whiwhi koe i te kōhatu kuru." "Ko ngā whare tawhito o ēnei wāhi he kōhatu papatahi ngohengohe me ngā āhuatanga kōhatu Bass, me ngā pakitara paru Lias pea," te kī a Preston.
He ngawari, he pakarukaru, he mahana te tae o te kōhatu kōhatu, he rerekē rawa atu i te kōhatu Portland iti e whakamahia ana e tātou i te nuinga o waenganui o Rānana. Tērā pea ka kite ngā kaimātakitaki auau i ēnei momo kōhatu, engari he kanohi mātau a Preston. I a mātou e whakatata atu ana ki a Wells, ka tohu ia ki ngā whare i hangaia ki te kōhatu Dortin i hangaia ai a Hato Tāmati. "He kōhatu kōhatu ōolitic te Dulting," te kī a Preston, "engari he karaka ake, he taratara ake."
I whakaahuahia e ia ngā momo moata i whakamahia i te UK. I rerekē i mua i runga i te whenua o te rohe, ā, i te wā i muri i te pakanga ka tino paerewahia, ā, ka hua ake te whakamakuku o ngā whare me te moata kore e uru ki roto i te makuku. I tirotirohia e Preston me āna hoa mahi ngā moata taketake, me te wetewete i a rātou kia taea ai e rātou te whakatau i ō rātou hanganga i te wā o te tukanga whakatauira. "Ki te hikoi koe i Rānana, ka kitea e koe ngā whare he iti noa ngā tuitui ma [raima]. Ka haere koe ki tētahi atu wāhi, ā, ka māwhero, ka māwhero, ka whero rānei."
I kite a Preston i ngā āhuatanga hoahoanga kāore i kitea e tetahi atu. "Kua roa ahau e mahi ana i tēnei," tana kī. Kua mahi ia i tēnei mara mai i tōna 16 tau, i tana wehenga atu i te kura ki te whakauru atu ki te kamupene kotahi i mahi ai ia mō ngā tau 20.
He aha te momo taiohi 16 tau te pakeke i whakarērea te kura hei kaimahi pereki? 'Kāore au i te mōhio!' e kī ana ia. "He ahua rerekē. I whakamārama ia kāore te kura "e tika ana mōku. Ehara ahau i te tangata mātauranga, engari ehara hoki ahau i te tangata e noho ana, e ako ana i roto i te akomanga. Me mahi tetahi mea ki ō ringaringa."
I kite ia i a ia anō e pai ana ki te āhua o te mahi pereki me tōna whakaritenga mō te tika. I muri i tana whakatutukitanga i te kāreti hei tauira i Sally Strachey Historic Conservation (kei te mahi tonu ia mā te kamupene e mōhiotia nei ko SSHC), i ako ia ki te whakairo i te tangata me te kararehe, me te tapahi i te kōhatu me te tika o te mirimita. E mōhiotia ana tēnei kaupapa ko te mahi pereki pēke. "Ko te manawanui he kotahi mirimita i te taha kotahi nā te mea ki te roa rawa koe ka taea e koe te tango atu. Ā, ki te piko rawa koe, kāore e taea e koe te mahi i tetahi mea."
He tino ōrite ngā pūkenga o Preston hei kaimahi kohatu ki tētahi atu pūkenga āna: te piki toka. I a ia e taiohi ana, he pai ki a ia te piki maunga. I a ia e mahi ana mā te SSHC i Farley Hungerford Castle i te rua tekau mā rua o ōna tau, ka mōhio ia kua waiho e te kapa he paraikete ki runga i te taiepa teitei. Engari i te piki anō i te tūāpapa, i whakamahia e Preston ngā taura hei piki māna anō. Kua tīmata kē tana mahi hei pourewa hou – ā, mai i taua wā kua heke iho ia i te Whare Ariki o Buckingham me te piki i ngā pourewa me ngā poupou tawhito.
E mea ana ia, ki te āta tirohia, he haumaru ake te piki taura i te tūāpapa. Engari he mea whakahihiri tonu. "He pai ki ahau te piki i ngā pou o te whare karakia," tana kī. "I a koe e piki ana i te tūāpapa o te whare karakia, ka iti haere te papatipu o te mea e pikihia ana e koe, nō reira, ina piki koe, ka nui haere te kitea. Ka heke ki te kore, ā, kāore e mutu te manukanuka o te tangata."
Kātahi anō ka tae mai te painga ki te tihi. "He rerekē ngā tirohanga, he tokoiti noa iho te hunga e kite ana. Ko te piki i te tihi te mea pai rawa atu mō te mahi i runga i te waka taura, i roto rānei i tētahi whare tawhito. Ko tana tirohanga tino pai ko te Whare Karakia o Wakefield, kei reira te tihi teitei rawa atu o te ao." Yorkshire.
I tahuri a Preston ki tētahi rori whenua, ā, ka tae mātou ki te awheawhe. He whare pāmu kua hurihia tēnei, e tuwhera ana ki te rangi. I waho e rua ngā minareta: he minareta tawhito, hina i hangaia ki ngā kohatu tae-pūngoi, me tētahi minareta hou, maeneene, kirimi. (E ai ki a Preston he kōhatu Doulting; kāore au e kite i te karaka nui ki taku kanohi mārama, engari e ai ki a ia he rerekē ngā tae o ngā paparanga rerekē o te kōhatu kotahi.)
I hanga e Preston te mea tawhito, ā, i whakahokia ōna wāhanga ki te whare hanga kaipuke kia mōhio ai ki ngā rahi mō te whakakapinga. "He maha ngā rā i pau i a mātou ki te whakapiri i ētahi kōhatu ki te whakaaro he aha te āhua," tana kī i a mātou e mātakitaki ana i ngā pou e rua i te rā.
Ka whakatakotoria he whakapaipai ki waenganui i te tihi me te matawai rangi: he kōhatu taupoki. Nā Preston i hanga tōna āhua putiputi toru-ahu, he pono ki te mea taketake pakaru, i roto i ngā rā e whā. I tēnei rā kei runga i te tēpu mahi, kua rite mō te haerenga kotahi ki Hato Tāmati.
I mua i tō mātou wehenga atu, i whakakitea mai e Preston ki ahau ngā pūtu rino iari te roa i whakaurua ki roto i te tihi i waenganui o te tekau tau atu i 1990. Ko te whāinga kia mau tonu te tihi, engari kāore i whakaarohia e ngā miihini he kaha te hau pērā i tō Eunice. I piko te pūtu matotoru, he rite ki te paipa whakaputa hau, kia rite ki te āhua C i tōna hinganga. Me waiho e Preston mā tana tira he taupoki kaha ake i tā rātou i kitea, nā te pai ake o ngā tokotoko here rino kore waikura. "Kāore mātou i whakaaro ki te mahi anō i te mahi i a mātou e ora ana," tana kī.
I a mātou e haere ana ki Hato Tāmati, i taha atu mātou i te Whare Karakia o Wells, tētahi atu kaupapa a Preston me tana tīma i SSHC. I runga ake i te karaka whetū rongonui i te taha raki o te whakawhiti, i tāutahia e Preston me tana tīma ētahi papa pereki ma.
He pai ki ngā Freemasons te amuamu mō ā rātou mahi. Ka whakahuatia e rātou te rerekētanga i waenga i ngā utu iti, te haere tawhiti, ngā kaimahi kirimana tere, me ngā kaimahi kohatu wā-katoa e noho pukumahi ana, he tokoiti tonu. Ahakoa ngā ngoikoretanga o tana mahi, e whakaaro ana a Preston he rangatira ia. I runga i te tuanui o te whare karakia nui, i kite ia i ngā mea whakarihariha i whakaritea hei whakangahau i te Atua, ehara i te mea hei whakangahau i ētahi atu tāngata. Ko te kitenga i a ia e piki ana i te tihi, pērā i tētahi momo whakapakoko, he mea whakahihiri, he mea whakahihiri hoki ki tana tama e rima tau te pakeke, ki a Blake. "Ki taku whakaaro he waimarie mātou," tana kī. "E tino hiahia ana ahau."
He nui tonu te mahi. Ka whakamahia ngā kaihanga kohatu e ngā moata hē i muri i te pakanga. Ka taea e ngā whare tawhito te tu atu i te wera, engari ki te tika te matapae a te Tari Matawhenua ka nui ake ngā awha i te huringa āhuarangi, ka maha tonu ngā kino i puta mai i te Awha Eunice i tēnei rautau.
I te taiepa iti e tata ana ki te urupā o Hato Tamati mātou e noho ana. I te wā e tau ana tōku ringa ki te taha o runga o te taiepa, ka pā atu ahau ki te kōhatu pakaru i hangaia ai. Ka totoro ō mātou kaki kia kite i te tihi kore upoko. I roto i ngā wiki e haere ake nei – kāore a SSHC e whakaputa i tētahi rā tika kia kore ai ngā kaimātakitaki e whakararuraru i ngā kaipiki – ka tāuta a Preston me āna kaimahi i tētahi tihi hou.
Ka mahia e rātou tēnei me ngā kerēne nunui, ā, ko te tumanako ka mau tonu ā rātou tikanga hou mō ngā rautau. E ai ki te whakaaroaro a Preston i roto i te awheawhe, 200 tau mai i nāianei, ka kanga ngā kaihanga kohatu i ō rātou tūpuna ("ngā kuware o te rautau 21") i ngā wāhi katoa e whakauru ana rātou i te maitai kore waikura ki roto i ō tātou whare tawhito.