30-03-2025
Oxford City Council set to sell Grade II listed North Gate Hall
A council is set to sell a Grade II listed church to its current Gate Hall in St Michael's Street, Oxford, was used as a Bill's restaurant between 2012 and 2020 but shut because of the pandemic and never was built in 1871 to designs by city architect JC Curtis and used as a United Methodist Free Church City Council currently leases the building to the Oxford Evangelical Presbyterian Church on a 35-year term, which started in January 2023.
The lease earns the authority £145,000 a year but the church asked to buy the building and the council formally agreed to sell on hopes the proposed sale "will generate a capital receipt that will support the council's financial position".The building, which stands opposite the Oxford Union, was used for offices in the late 1950s and as an Afro-Caribbean social club in the late council will withhold financial details until the deal is completed.
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