Oxford Evangelical Presbyterian Church (OEPC) has secured a long-term tenancy for the North Gate Hall on St Michael’s Street in central Oxford.
Designed and constructed by J. C. Curtis for the United Free Methodist Church in 1871, the building was subsequently used by the Oxford Intercollegiate Christian Union (OICCU) for more than 50 years.
It was in the basement of the North Gate Hall, in the OICCU library, that the then recently-converted J. I. Packer first discovered the works of John Owen which went on to have such a formative influence on his life and theology and, through him, on a whole generation of evangelical pastors and writers.
