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Mercure Eastgate Hotel
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The Eastgate Hotel from the High Street in Oxford
Eastgate Hotel
General information
Location73 High Street
Oxford, England
OX1 4BE
Coordinates 51°45′08″N1°14′58″W / 51.75224°N 1.24940°W / 51.75224; -1.24940 Coordinates: 51°45′08″N1°14′58″W / 51.75224°N 1.24940°W / 51.75224; -1.24940
Opening1900
Owner Mercure
Design and construction
Architect E.P. Warren
Other information
Number of rooms64
Website
mercure.com

The Mercure Eastgate Hotel (aka The Eastgate locally) [1] is a hotel located in the historic university city of Oxford, England. It is located on the south side of Oxford's High Street near to the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art and the Examination Schools of Oxford University.

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History

The site was previously occupied by an inn called the Crosse Sword. [2] The hotel is a converted 17th-century coaching inn located at the corner of Merton Street on the site of the town wall's former east gate. The building was converted by Edward Prioleau Warren in 1899–1900, and the stuccoed style of the building echoes other 18th-century buildings in Oxford.

Local legend

Ross Andrews [3] links reports of the sound of men in armour and sightings of English Civil War era Royalist soldiers passing through walls to the hotel's location on the site of the old east gate, and speculates about a surprise attack by Parliamentarian forces.

Literature

The Eastgate was mentioned by John Betjeman (1906–1984) in his poetry: [4]

Then, with a loosely knotted shantung tie
    And hair well soaked in Delhez' Genêt d'Or
Strolled to the Eastgate. Oxford marmalade
    And a thin volume of Lowes Dickinson

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References

  1. "Mercure Eastgate Hotel". University of Oxford, UK. Archived from the original on 11 April 2011. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
  2. Hibbert, Christopher, ed. (1988). "Eastgate Hotel". The Encyclopaedia of Oxford . Macmillan. p. 127. ISBN   0-333-39917-X.
  3. Andrews, Ross (2010). "Ghost of Oxford City Centre – Indoor Venues". Paranormal Oxford. Chalford, Gloucestershire: Amberley. p. 36. ISBN   978-1-4456-0002-4.
  4. Delaney, Frank (1985). "Oxford". Betjeman Country. Paladin Books. Granada Publishing. p. 72. ISBN   978-0-586-08499-1.