Chantry Place, formerly Intu Chapelfield and before that Chapelfield, is a

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city centre, on a site previously occupied by the Caleys (later Rowntree Mackintosh and

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) chocolate factory. As Chapelfield, the centre opened in 2005. It adopted Intu branding in 2013 following the renaming of its parent Capital Shopping Centres to become

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in line with most of the company's centres. Intu entered

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in June 2020 and Chapelfield transferred to new ownership in October that year, being renamed Chantry Place.

History

The centre opened on 21st September 2005, featuring a new three-floor flagship House of Fraser department store. It was claimed to be the largest shopping centre to open in Britain in 2005, with 80 shops and 17 cafés and restaurants. Like many new retail developments, Chapelfield opened amid fanfare and local controversy, with a feeling in some quarters that the development brought little real value to the city centre, but instead was turning Norwich into another clone city, with another shopping centre already open in the city centre, Castle Mall (now re-named Castle Quarter). Criticism was levelled at the new development that the 'new' shops are mostly stores that have re-located from elsewhere in the city centre. The developers responded, however, that 50 per cent of the stores were 'completely new to Norwich' including the only House of Fraser store in the region. The centre was rebranded as "intu Chapelfield" in 2013 following the renaming of parent

Capital Shopping Centres Intu Properties plc was a British real estate investment trust (REIT), largely focused on shopping centre management and development. Originally named Liberty International plc, it changed its name in May 2010 to Capital Shopping Centres Group p ...

Group plc as "intu properties plc". Intu Properties plc entered administration on 20 June 2020, and the centre transferred to new operators LaSalle Investment Management in October that year, managed by Savills. It received the new name of Chantry Place on 20 October 2020. Seventeen bodies believed to be Jews were found in 2004 by workers preparing the site. The remains dating from 1150 to 1300 were buried at the city's Earlham Road Cemetery.

Awards

The

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awarded the centre its Gold Award for best In-Town Retail Scheme in 2006.

Stores

Keystone stores in the centre include House of Fraser,

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, Hollister Co. and H&M. The centre's third floor, known as The Dining Terrace, comprises

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and

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, including

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, KFC and Spudulike.

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* {{Shopping centres in the East of England Shopping centres in Norfolk Buildings and structures in Norwich Shopping malls established in 2005