They swam in brilliant shoals, like rains of glittering dust, throughout the greenstone depths - hapuku, manga, kahawai, tamure, moki, and warehou - herded by shark or mango ururoa.
The plans would also allow visitors for the first time into the triforium, a spectacular if dusty secret world 70ft above the nave, with a view described by John Betjeman as "the best in the world".