Hoxton Hall

Hoxton Hall
Mortimer's Hall
Hoxton Hall Dancing Academy
MacDonald's Music hall
Blue Ribbon Gospel Temperance Mission

Hoxton Hall, still an active community resource
Address Hoxton Street
London, N1
United Kingdom
Coordinates 51°31′54″N 0°04′49″W / 51.5318°N 0.0802°W / 51.5318; -0.0802
Public transit London Overground Hoxton
Owner Hoxton Community Trust
Designation Grade II*
Type Community and touring performance
Capacity 320
Current use Community centre and performance space
Construction
Opened 1863
Years active 18631871
Architect James Mortimer
Website
hoxtonhall.co.uk

Hoxton Hall is a community centre and performance space in Hoxton, at 130 Hoxton Street, in the London Borough of Hackney.

A grade II* listed building, the theatre was first built as a Music hall in 1863, as MacDonald's Music hall. It is an unrestored example of the saloon-style. In the theatre, an iron-railed, two tier galleried auditorium rises on three sides, supported on cast iron columns, above a small, high, multi-tiered stage. It survives, largely in its original form, as for many years it was used as a Quaker meeting house.

The music hall lost its performance licence in 1871, due to complaints by the police; it was sold, and the new owners applied for a licence in 1876, but were again rejected. William Isaac Palmer (1824–1893) purchased it on behalf of the Blue Ribbon Gospel Temperance Mission in 1879. Palmer was an heir to the Huntley and Palmer biscuit family and spent much of his fortune on charity. On Palmer's death, the hall passed to the Bedford Institute, a Quaker organisation dedicated to running adult schools and alleviating the results of poverty.

Today, the hall is used as a community centre and performance space, predominantly for youth groups.

Notable recent performances

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