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]