Sir - William Henry Butler was Mayor of Oxford 1836 and is buried in Carfax.

The church was demolished many years ago except for the tower.

Some of the graves are still in their original place. I am William's great-great grandson and I learn that his grave is being used to support a table and chairs in an outdoor café. Not only is this disrespectful, but the gravestone is also being damaged. Is this the way Oxford now treats her sons? Are Oxford graveyards now to be desecrated as a matter of course?

Obviously respect has been dropped from the syllabus in Oxford. Even Cambridge finally buried Oliver Cromwell's head in 1960 and stopped using it as a paperweight.

D C Wilkes, Looe, Cornwall