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Chantry Place (Chapelfield) Norwich: Opening Hours, Shops List & Late Night Shopping

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Chantry Place Norwich is the city’s largest covered shopping centre, hosting more than 90 shops, restaurants and cafés across three trading levels. This is the biggest shopping centre in Norwich by tenant count and the obvious starting point for any list of shops in Norwich town centre. This page covers Chantry Place opening times for every day of the week, the Sunday hours, the headline Frasers Norwich opening times and the rest of the major-tenant hours, plus festive and bank-holiday variations and what late-night shopping Norwich actually looks like across the year.

One thing worth flagging up front, because Google still sees the old name searched several hundred times a month: Chantry Place was called intu Chapelfield until 20 October 2020, and many shoppers still search for “shops in Chapelfield Norwich” or “Chapelfield opening times Norwich”. The centre is the same building on the same Chapelfield Plain site (now also called Chantry Square) — only the operator name has changed. The Chapelfield-era shop list is comprehensively superseded by the current Chantry Place shops directory below.

Chantry Place/Chapelfield Opening Times

Chantry Place opening hours and Chantry Place opening times refer to the same published schedule — the operator uses both phrasings interchangeably. The centre operates a consistent Monday-to-Saturday day with reduced Sunday hours under the UK Sunday Trading Act, which limits stores larger than 280 square metres to a maximum of six hours of trading on a Sunday.

Day	Chantry Place hours
Monday	9.00am – 6.00pm
Tuesday	9.00am – 6.00pm
Wednesday	9.00am – 6.00pm
Thursday	9.00am – 6.00pm
Friday	9.00am – 6.00pm
Saturday	9.00am – 6.00pm
Sunday	10.30am – 4.30pm

Norwich shops opening times across the rest of the city centre — Castle Quarter (formerly Castle Mall), the Royal Arcade, London Street, Gentleman’s Walk and the wider Lanes — broadly follow this Chantry Place pattern Monday to Saturday, with some divergence on Sunday where many smaller independent units open later or close earlier than the centre. Castle Quarter and most of the major-chain tenants on Gentleman’s Walk follow Chantry Place’s 9.00am–6.00pm Monday-to-Saturday rhythm. The norwich shopping centre opening times that diverge most are the supermarkets (longer evenings) and the cafés and restaurants (later closes).

Correct as of 30 April 2026. Hours are set by the operator and do change for seasonal and bank-holiday reasons — please check the official Chantry Place opening hours page before you travel.

Chantry Place Opening Times Saturday

Chantry Place opens at 9.00am on Saturdays and trades through to 6.00pm — a nine-hour day that is the busiest of the week. Saturday is consistently when the centre fills fastest. The morning window between 10.00am and noon is the heaviest in the food court and around Frasers and Sports Direct; arriving for the 9.00am door-open is the calmer alternative, and the last hour from 5.00pm to 6.00pm is also quieter for browsing the major fashion units.

Chantry Place Opening Times Sunday

Chantry Place Sunday hours run from 10.30am to 4.30pm. Larger fashion stores apply the maximum six-hour Sunday trading window allowed under UK law for shops over 280 square metres — those units operate a 30-minute browsing-only window from 10.30am with full retail trading from 11.00am. Smaller specialist units, the food court and the cafés can trade the entire 10.30am–4.30pm window. Sunday is materially quieter than Saturday across all the Norwich town centre shops, and the 10.30am door-open through to about 12.30pm is the calmest browsing window of the week.

What time do shops close in Norwich today

The vast majority of Chantry Place tenants close at 6.00pm Monday to Saturday and 4.30pm on Sunday — the same time as the centre itself. Castle Quarter and the major chain tenants on Gentleman’s Walk close at 6.00pm Monday-Saturday too. Exceptions are the food court and cafés (later, around 8.00pm in summer), the supermarkets on the city ring road (10.00pm or 11.00pm closes), and a small number of specialist units and the Royal Arcade independents which can trade outside the centre hours. To answer “what time do shops close in Norwich today” specifically: if today is a normal trading day, Chantry Place and most Norwich town centre shops close at 6.00pm; if it’s a Sunday, 4.30pm; if it’s a bank holiday Monday, usually 5.00pm; if it’s Boxing Day, 7.00pm.

Chantry Place Opening Times Today and Tomorrow

The standard hours above apply on any normal trading day. The exceptions are the December festive period, Christmas Day (closed), Boxing Day, New Year’s Eve, Easter Sunday and Monday, and the spring and summer bank holiday Mondays — see the festive and bank-holiday sections below for those specific dates. If today or tomorrow falls outside any of those listed exceptions, Chantry Place trades 9.00am–6.00pm Monday to Saturday or 10.30am–4.30pm Sunday. The biggest shopping centre in Norwich therefore runs the same daily rhythm year-round outside those two-week festive and Easter windows.

Chantry Place Christmas Opening Times: Boxing Day and New Year

Chantry Place Christmas opening times stretch furthest in late December — this is the only window in the year when Norwich genuinely has late-night shopping, with most weekdays through December extending to 8.00pm or 9.00pm. Boxing Day in particular runs an early-start, late-close schedule with brand-led promotions opening as the doors do. The published 2026 festive period schedule for Chantry Place looks like this:

Date	Hours
Wednesday 24 December (Christmas Eve)	9.00am – 5.00pm
Thursday 25 December (Christmas Day)	Closed
Friday 26 December (Boxing Day)	9.00am – 7.00pm
Saturday 27 December	9.00am – 6.00pm
Sunday 28 December	10.30am – 4.30pm
Monday 29 December	9.00am – 6.00pm
Tuesday 30 December	9.00am – 6.00pm
Wednesday 31 December (New Year’s Eve)	9.00am – 5.00pm
Thursday 1 January (New Year’s Day)	11.00am – 5.00pm

Correct as of 30 April 2026. Hours are set by the operator and do change for seasonal and bank-holiday reasons — please check the official Chantry Place opening hours page before you travel.

Chantry Place Opening Times: Bank Holiday and Easter

Chantry Place bank-holiday opening hours apply across all UK bank holidays except Christmas Day. The typical bank holiday Monday at the centre runs 10.00am–5.00pm — seven hours, slightly shorter than a normal weekday. Easter Sunday follows the standard 10.30am–4.30pm Sunday hours; Easter Monday usually runs the bank holiday 10.00am–5.00pm pattern. The spring (early May), late May and August bank holiday Mondays follow the same shorter schedule. The exact bank-holiday figures are confirmed each season on the operator’s site — please check the official Chantry Place opening hours page within three to four weeks of your visit.

Chantry Place Shops: The Full List of Brands

Chantry Place shops number more than 90 across three trading levels, anchored by Frasers on the upper levels and supported by a strong fashion, beauty and food line-up. The list of shops in Norwich town centre is dominated by Chantry Place’s tenant mix — most of the major chain brands you would expect on a UK high street are inside the centre rather than on the surrounding streets. The list of shops in Chapelfield Norwich that visitors remember from before the 2020 rebrand is still substantially the same: the building, layout and most of the tenants are unchanged, with the operator name being the main difference.

Anchor: Frasers (formerly House of Fraser)

The headline anchor at Chantry Place is Frasers — the rebranded House of Fraser department store, which reopened across the upper levels in autumn 2025 after a substantial refurbishment. The new-format Frasers store hosts a curated fashion, beauty and home offer alongside Sports Direct, USC, GAME, Evans Cycles and Belong (the e-sports gaming venue) under one roof. Frasers Norwich opening times match the centre hours: 9.00am–6.00pm Monday to Saturday and 10.30am–4.30pm Sunday with the standard Sunday Trading Act browsing window applied.

Major fashion, beauty and lifestyle tenants

The headline Chantry Place shops across fashion, beauty and lifestyle include Hollister, Oliver Bonas, Beaverbrooks, Ernest Jones, Flying Tiger Copenhagen, Holland & Barrett, Hotel Chocolat, Accessorize and Ann Summers. Sports Direct sits inside the new Frasers footprint as part of the Frasers Group brand consolidation. Across the food court level you will find Caffè Nero, Costa Coffee, McDonald’s and Ask Italian among others. The full Chantry Place shops directory runs to over 90 named units — the line-up changes once or twice a year as smaller specialist stores rotate.

List of shops in Norwich town centre beyond Chantry Place

The list of shops in Norwich town centre extends beyond Chantry Place into Castle Quarter (a smaller covered shopping centre by the Castle), the Royal Arcade (independent specialists), London Street and Gentleman’s Walk (mid-market chains), Magdalen Street (independents and vintage) and the Norwich Lanes (independent specialist clusters). Chantry Place is the biggest shopping centre in Norwich by both floor area and tenant count, so most major-chain shopping is concentrated here, with the surrounding streets carrying the independent and specialist retailers that don’t fit the centre’s chain-tenant focus.

Castle Quarter (Formerly Castle Mall): Norwich’s Second Covered Centre

Castle Quarter is Norwich’s second-largest covered shopping centre, on Castle Meadow at the foot of Norwich Castle — about three minutes’ walk east of Chantry Place. The centre was originally Castle Mall when it opened in 1993, and most Norwich locals still call it that. The mix is broader than Chantry Place: alongside high-street shops you have a string of restaurants, a Roko gym on the upper level, an NHS Wellness Hub, the Vue Cinema and the Castle Quarter car park — all under one roof. It is also one of the easiest covered routes between the bus station, the Castle and Norwich Market.

Clock tower entrance to Castle Quarter (formerly Castle Mall) Norwich, with distinctive geometric metallic facade and Flying Tiger stores — Castle Quarter (formerly Castle Mall) – the clock tower entrance on Orford Hill, Norwich

Dome entrance to Castle Quarter shopping centre Norwich, with glass dome rotunda, revolving doors and NHS Wellness Hub — Castle Quarter Norwich – the dome entrance; shops, restaurants and Vue Cinema are all inside

Castle Quarter operates broadly the same Monday-to-Saturday rhythm as Chantry Place — most shops are 9.00am to 6.00pm Monday to Saturday with a slightly later 10.00am start on Sunday and a 4.00pm to 4.30pm Sunday close — though the cinema, the gym and the restaurants extend well into the evening, often through to 11.00pm. Worth confirming individual store hours via the official Castle Quarter site before a specific visit.

Castle Quarter Car Park: Hours and Pay-On-Exit Tariff

The Castle Quarter car park is one of the most useful evening-shopping car parks in central Norwich because it stays open later than the centre itself. Hozah pay-on-exit applies, and the £3 evening rate after 5.00pm makes it a much cheaper option than the on-street meters or the Chapelfield car park if you are heading to dinner, the cinema or a late-shopping window in the run-up to Christmas.

Hozah pay-on-exit parking tariff for Castle Quarter car park Norwich: up to 1 hour 2 pounds, 2 hours 3.75, 3 hours 5.75, 4 hours 7.50; evening rate 3 pounds after 5pm. Open Monday to Sunday 7am to midnight. — Castle Quarter car park (Hozah, pay on exit) – open Mon-Sun 7am-midnight; evening rate 3 pounds after 5pm

Hours run 7.00am to midnight, seven days a week, with no overnight stay. The headline tariff at the time of writing is £2 for up to one hour, £3.75 for up to two hours, £5.75 for up to three hours and £7.50 for up to four hours. The flat-rate £3 evening rate kicks in at 5.00pm and is the cheapest way to park in central Norwich for an evening. The car park is signposted from the inner ring road and from the bus station, with entrances from Cattle Market Street and Farmers Avenue.

The full and current shop list

The complete list of Chantry Place shops — including which units are temporarily closed for refit and the latest new arrivals — is maintained on the operator’s site. The official Chantry Place stores directory is the canonical source.

From Chapelfield to Chantry Place: The 2020 Rebrand

Chantry Place opened in 2005 as Chapelfield — at the time the largest shopping centre to open in Britain that year, with about 80 shops and 17 cafés and restaurants on a site previously occupied by the Caleys (and later Rowntree Mackintosh and Nestlé) chocolate factory. The first Rolo was made in this Norwich factory before the site was redeveloped. The centre adopted intu branding in 2013 when its parent Capital Shopping Centres became intu Properties.

Intu Properties entered administration in June 2020 and the centre transferred to LaSalle Investment Management in October 2020, managed by Savills. On 20 October 2020 the centre relaunched as Chantry Place — a name that draws on the medieval chantry chapel and college that occupied the site in the 1200s. Chapelfield Plain was simultaneously renamed Chantry Square. The rebrand is now five years old, but Google still sees regular searches for “shops in Chapelfield Norwich” and “Chapelfield opening times Norwich” — for those visitors, this is the same centre, the same building, the same line-up of major tenants, only the operator name has changed.

Late Night Shopping Norwich: The Honest Picture

For late night shopping Norwich is genuinely a December-only proposition. Chantry Place’s standard 6.00pm Monday-to-Saturday close is two hours earlier than Manchester Arndale’s 8.00pm and Liverpool One’s 8.00pm Monday-to-Friday close. The genuine late-shopping window for late night shopping in Norwich is the December festive period, when most weekdays at Chantry Place extend to 8.00pm or 9.00pm and the centre runs late-night shopping events, live music and Christmas markets in the run-up to 25 December. Outside December, late-evening browsing across Norwich town centre is largely limited to the supermarkets, the cafés and the cinema.

For evening visits during Christmas, weekday Tuesday and Wednesday between 5.30pm and 8.00pm is the genuinely calm window — most office workers have left the centre, the Saturday daytime crowds aren’t a factor, and changing-room queues are at their shortest. Outside December, the late-evening dining and drinks scene moves to the cafés and restaurants on St Andrew’s Street, Tombland and the Norwich Lanes, all within five minutes’ walk of Chantry Place’s southern exit.

Getting to Chantry Place

By train

Norwich railway station sits about a fifteen-minute walk south-east of Chantry Place via Prince of Wales Road and Castle Meadow. Greater Anglia operates direct services from London Liverpool Street (1 hour 50 minutes), Cambridge (1 hour 15 minutes), and the East Anglia network including Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft, King’s Lynn and Sheringham. East Midlands Railway operates the cross-country service from Liverpool Lime Street via Manchester Piccadilly, Sheffield, Nottingham, Peterborough and Ely.

By bus

Norwich bus station on Surrey Street is a five-minute walk south-east of Chantry Place. First Eastern Counties, Konectbus and the wider Norfolk bus network all use this station. The Castle Meadow stops on the eastern edge of the city centre put you within two minutes’ walk of the Chantry Place southern entrance.

By car and parking

Chantry Place has its own multi-storey car park on Chapelfield Plain (now also called Chantry Square) with around 1,000 spaces, accessed from Chapelfield North or via the inner ring road. Car park opening times broadly match the centre’s trading hours plus a small buffer either side. Charges apply at standard city-centre rates and can be paid by app or at the pay-on-foot machines as you leave. Saturday peak demand fills the car park from late morning; arriving before 10.00am or after 3.00pm is the calm-window strategy.

Where to Eat at Chantry Place

Chantry Place has its own food court and a string of cafés across the trading levels. Notable options include:

Ask Italian — table-service Italian on the upper level
McDonald’s, Pret a Manger and the food-court counter-service standards
Coffee chains: Costa Coffee, Caffè Nero across multiple locations
Hotel Chocolat for in-store café and treats

Within five minutes’ walk of Chantry Place’s exits, the wider Norwich Lanes have a much broader independent restaurant scene — Bedfords Street, St Andrew’s Street and Pottergate carry a strong cluster of bistros, gastropubs and bakeries. Tombland and Magdalen Street also extend the late-evening dining options outside the centre’s 6.00pm close.

Chantry Place Norwich Opening Times: Frequently Asked Questions

What are Chantry Place opening times?

Chantry Place opening times are 9.00am to 6.00pm Monday to Saturday and 10.30am to 4.30pm on Sunday. Boxing Day extends to 7.00pm; bank holiday Mondays typically run 10.00am–5.00pm. Christmas Day is closed. December weekdays usually extend to 8.00pm or 9.00pm in the run-up to Christmas as part of the centre’s late-night shopping events programme.

Is Chantry Place the same as Chapelfield Norwich?

Yes. The centre opened as Chapelfield in 2005, traded as intu Chapelfield from 2013, and was renamed Chantry Place on 20 October 2020 after intu Properties entered administration and the centre transferred to LaSalle Investment Management. Shops in Chapelfield Norwich and shops in Chantry Place Norwich now refer to the same building and substantially the same line-up of tenants — only the operator name has changed.

What is the biggest shopping centre in Norwich?

Chantry Place is the biggest shopping centre in Norwich, with more than 90 stores, restaurants and cafés across three trading levels. Castle Quarter (formerly Castle Mall) is the second-largest covered shopping centre in the city. The Royal Arcade is the smallest of the three covered shopping arcades and focuses on independent specialist retailers.

What time does the shopping centre Norwich open on Sunday?

The shopping centre Norwich shoppers mostly have in mind — Chantry Place — opens at 10.30am on Sunday and closes at 4.30pm. The major fashion stores apply the maximum six-hour Sunday trading window allowed under UK law for shops larger than 280 square metres, with a 30-minute browsing window from 10.30am and full retail trading from 11.00am. Smaller specialist units, the food court and the cafés can trade the entire 10.30am–4.30pm window.

What time do shops close in Norwich today?

The vast majority of Chantry Place tenants and the major chain stores on Gentleman’s Walk close at 6.00pm Monday to Saturday and 4.30pm Sunday. Bank holiday Mondays close at 5.00pm; Boxing Day at 7.00pm; the December weekdays through to Christmas Eve usually extend to 8.00pm or 9.00pm. Cafés, restaurants and supermarkets close substantially later than the main shopping floor.

Are Frasers and Sports Direct Norwich opening times the same as the centre?

Yes. Frasers (the rebranded House of Fraser, which reopened in autumn 2025 after a substantial refurbishment) and Sports Direct (which now sits inside the new Frasers footprint as part of the Frasers Group brand consolidation) both follow Chantry Place centre hours: 9.00am–6.00pm Monday to Saturday and 10.30am–4.30pm Sunday with the standard Sunday Trading Act browsing window applied. USC, GAME, Evans Cycles and the Belong gaming venue inside the same Frasers footprint follow the same hours.

Does Chantry Place do late night shopping?

The standard 6.00pm Monday-to-Saturday close means Chantry Place doesn’t reach the late-night shopping range outside the December festive period. Late night shopping Norwich is therefore genuinely a December-only proposition — most weekdays through December extend to 8.00pm or 9.00pm in the run-up to Christmas, and the centre runs Christmas events, live music and the Christmas market alongside the extended hours. Outside December, the late-evening browsing window is supermarkets and cafés rather than fashion and homewares.

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