WITH reference to Elizabeth Whitwick’s letter (Church job requirement, ViewPoints, December 11), it comes as little surprise that part of the job description for vicar Tim Stead was to be in agreement with plans for so-called ‘reordering’ of Holy Trinity Church at Headington Quarry.
He accepted the job and as such is the leader of the church parochial council and inevitably their ambassador to the wider community (at the moment between ‘a rock and a hard place’).
Extra church capacity will hardly be an issue if this ambitious plan is forced through by the minority, going against overwhelming opposition to desecrating graves in the consecrated churchyard.
Elizabeth Whitwick’s letter states that the diocese desire an extension for a number of current needs but no other alternative plans apart from the original (destroying graves), were offered at the public meeting on November 27.
It is unfortunate the engineers of this plan did not understand the high level of furore from the community likely to be generated from their one and only proposal.
Alan Kerry Newman Road, Littlemore, Oxford
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