Northgate Hall

Location of Northgate Hall within central Oxford

The Northgate Hall stands in St Michael's Street, Oxford, England. It has had a number of purposes:

• It was originally built as a Primitive Methodist Church, but with Methodist Union in 1932 it was no longer needed for this purpose, as the Wesleyan Wesley Memorial Church is about 100m away;
• From 1933 until the summer of 1989, it served as the base for the Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union (OICCU);
• From 1991 to 2005, it hosted the Oxford Lesbian and Gay Community Centre.

Since the early 1990s, it has also hosted Gatehouse, which is a drop-in centre for homeless people set up by churches in the centre of Oxford.

In 2001, it suffered damage from a fire.^[1]

In January 2011, the City Council issued a statement that they were giving Gatehouse notice to move out of the building, meaning that the charity will close unless other premises are found.^[2] They cited financial pressures and the fact that the building is underoccupied as users of other parts of the building have left.^[3]

References

1. Northgate Fire, The Oxford Student, Michaelmas Term, 2001.
2. "Oxford homeless cafe set to close", BBC News website
3. "Future of the Gatehouse", Oxford City Council

Coordinates: 51°45′13″N 1°15′34″W / 51.7535°N 1.2594°W