Churchill Square Christmas Market

I love Christmas markets! Sadly, the one in Churchill Square isn’t that large, there was probably only about ten stalls here which was a little disappointing. There were a few gift stalls selling such things as jewellery, crafts and hats. However, my favourite stalls are the food ones!
There was a German Bratwurst stall which I obviously had to sample from. A Belgian creperie, which I will be back to sample from. There were stalls selling French goods such as cheese and cured meat (I brought a fantastic partridge and cognac cured sausage), a Portuguese stall, stalls selling nuts, Greek baclava, olives, and fruit and veg.
All the right ingredients are here for a fabulous Christmas market, it just needs to extend to include more stalls.

Beware of the loos near the crèche — they are like a sauna and only get worse in the summer. Not even the dyson hand-​dryers can redeem these facilities!

Everything you could want under one roof, clean, good security.

Ive been to churchill square a few times a couple of them staying for lunch as well, i agree with the fact that the food court seems mashed into the ceiling it does feel enclosed and not alot of seating available. The shops themselves are ok a varied variety if theres anything your missing just head outside and your sure to find what you want in the masses of streets a really wide range of shops for pretty much anything you need.

Its a shopping mall the same as any other with identikit stores. Once inside you could be anywhere in England at all. Mind you its miles better than the concrete breeze block shanty area that was there before it and I too gathered with the thousands of others on its opening day. A good place to escape the bitting sea wind in the winter, has loos and a food court. The café downstairs in BHS has the best cheapest breakfast and once you’ve indulged you can canter to the upper mall and practise your swerving techniques as you avoid all those Excuse me madam power sellers that want to offload their unsellable wares.
If you are visiting the area take a moment to indulge in a spot of quirky behaviour and in the square outside opposite the bus stops theres a stone seating area, circular shaped with a sculpture placed above that just looks like half circles jutting out. You have to stand on the seat and stand inbetween the wings facing the imprints of the world and LISTEN !!! strange behaviour granted but its what it was designed for.

This is a really nice shopping centre with lots of fashion shops. There even enough stuff for guys, I would recommend Zara for relatively cheap smart clothes and river island for more casual stuff. It has an ok food hall and two music stores and well as plenty of women’s fashion and some jewelers.

I agree with much of what’s been said — there’s a good number of toilets provided, with a crèche nearby, and there’s a fair variety of shops, including a few one offs, thankfully.
But the Food Court, while central to the experience, feels like its been pushed up into an attic, its very low-​ceilinged. And there’s no wow factor at all — if you compare it to Crawley Mall, for example, with its layer after layer of floors exposed in a huge well — there’s nothing similar.
There’s no central water feature, there’s no greenery, there is a square at the back of BhS but its given over to weekend shopping displays — this is where Santa parks his sleigh, of course, and its a lot of fun watching excited little children queuing to see Santa when you’re far enough away not to get trapped by the crush.
The shops are pretty good. But the shopping experience could be a whole lot better.

If you’ve ever been inside a mall, you’ll already know exactly what to find here as there are certainly no surprises to be found. But, it is open later then most, and its certainly conveniently located, right in the middle of town. The fact that it has so much parking is its saving grace, what with the parking in brighton being what it is.

I like Churchill square its not very big centre but it does have most of the main stream shops that you would want with out having to walk for mile its also has good parking with signs thought out the town telling of the parking spaces but the site its self is well chosen as every thing just out side of the centre looks like it was planned and a 2 mins walk your in the famous lanes of Brighton.

There is a good range of shops in this centre. Not bad at all as shopping centres go. Something for everyone i think. I don’t recommend it on a Saturday though!

Although I’m not generally a fan of shopping centres, this is one of the better ones in my experience. Churchill Square is also rather deceptive: it’s much larger inside than it appears from the frontage on Churchill Square, with 85 shops including two department stores.
That, in itself, is one reason why it’s a cut above many such centres, in that it was designed to have a proper ‘street frontage’ rather than be a completely anonymous block from the outside, as many are. The frontage has well-​known High Street names such as Dixons, W H Smiths and BHS, as well as a large Borders on one corner.
Besides BHS, the other anchor store is a Debenhams at the far end: the layout is essentially a sort of ‘Y’ shape with a circular atrium at the join, and another atrium with balconies leading on the the third ‘leg’ of the ‘Y’ to Debenhams. Other large 2-​storey shops include Habitat, Zara and Next, and there’s a Superdrug on the ground floor. Thanks to the two atria, the interior feels relatively light and spacious.
As well as the chains, there are a few independent shops as well, but for the most part, the shopping is an entirely predictable chain-​store experience. A more modern touch is the small stalls which rent space in the walkways, selling everything from delicatessen and nibbles (olives, cheeses etc), nuts, chocolate, specialist toiletries and, at Christmas time, calendars and specialist gift stalls. They’re all aimed at impulse purchases, mind, so tend to be a little pricey.
The food court includes the inevitable McDonald’s, EAT and Spud-​u-​like, as well as West Cornwall Pasties, and a few Italian-​styled cafes. I must confess that I’ve never been tempted to eat here, as there are plenty of other places in central Brighton (and why eat in a shopping centre?). There are some food stalls in the square in front of the complex, too.
As Ellieb says, they generally keep the place clean and tidy, and there are large toilets with baby-​changing facilities. There’s a lift in the central atrium to provide step-​free access to all floors.
The road in front of the square functions as the main bus terminus for Brighton buses, and you can get to most of East and West Sussex from here, and there’s a huge car park behind the complex as well.
There are plans to redevelop and enlarge the complex, at the same time as they rebuild the Brighton Centre adjacent, in the next 10 years or so.

The centre is of a medium size for a shopping mall. With the shops you would expect from a town centre shopping complex including; Superdrug, Miss Selfridge, Warehouse, BHS, Throntons and many more popluar places. The shops are on two different floors with a third floor holding a food court. The complex is well maintained with plenty of toilet and changing facilities around. However i just feel maybe some more high street shops are needed in Churchill Square!