George Street, Oxford

Street in central Oxford, England

George Street is a street in central Oxford, England. It is a shopping street running east–west.

Its eastern end meets Broad Street at a crossroads with Cornmarket Street to the south and Magdalen Street to the north. Its western end meets Hythe Bridge Street at a crossroads with Worcester Street. The New Theatre Oxford, Oxford's main commercial theatre, is on the north side of the street. For a period, it was the Apollo Theatre but it has regained its earlier name. The Burton Taylor Studio is in Gloucester Street, which runs off the north side of George Street. Number 40 on the north side is occupied by Arts at the Old Fire Station. Gloucester Green bus station is off the north of George Street at the western end. Companies including the Oxford Bus Company and Stagecoach in Oxfordshire operate services from here.

George Street is outside the formerly walled section of Oxford, running parallel with the medieval wall. Buildings on the south side of the street occupy plots that were formerly part of the defensive ditch outside the wall. The former City of Oxford High School for Boys building on the south side of the street was designed by T. G. Jackson and built in 1880 81. In 1966, the school moved to the Southfields Grammar School site and its former building became the University of Oxford Classics Department. Since 2007, the building has housed the University's Faculty of History. W. F. Lucas' ready to wear clothing factory on the south side of the street was designed by Harry Drinkwater and built by local contractor T. H. Kingerlee in 1892. As a factory, 300 employees worked on the site. By 1974, the fire station had moved to Rewley Road and its former building had been converted to a community arts centre (Arts at the Old Fire Station) run by the charity Oxford Area Arts Council and used occasionally by Anvil Productions, the Oxford Playhouse Company, for rehearsals. Since then it has changed owners and names a number of times. It is now the Odeon George Street.