We checked 18 independent Chichester shops, from a South Street toy shop to Cowdray's deli, for opening hours and addresses. Updated November 2026.

Chichester has 18 independent shops worth a Christmas shopping trip in 2026, and this guide puts them in one place with opening hours, addresses and what each one sells. Winter’s Moon, The Sussex Bookshop, Whirligig Toys and Little Cowdray at Fernleigh are the names most people land on. We checked each entry on 5 November 2026 against the shop’s own site, and say where we could not.

We have not shopped at any of these for this guide, and nothing here is a review. The starting point is Chichester BID’s 2026 Christmas shopping guide, written by the business group that represents these shops, so its praise is not independent. Shops often change their hours close to Christmas, so check before a special trip.

North Street

1. Winter’s Moon

Winter’s Moon describes itself as an independent gift and homewares shop selling “beautiful things for living and giving”, and tells Chichester BID it mixes modern, fairtrade and vintage items. Its website has Christmas decorations, advent calendars, cards and stocking fillers, and sorts gifts into price bands from under £10 to under £100.

It also advertises an annual festive shopping evening with limited spaces; the date is on its booking page, which we could not open.

Open Mon to Sat 10am to 5pm; Sun 11am to 4pm
Call 01243 781127
Address 29-30 North Street, PO19 1LX
Website wintersmoon.co.uk
Good for homewares, Christmas decorations, cards, gift wrapping

2. Little Cowdray at Fernleigh

The Cowdray Estate, based at Midhurst, opened this farm shop and deli inside Fernleigh in November 2025. Chichester BID lists artisan cheeses, charcuterie, meat and local produce, and suggests it as the start of a personalised food hamper. Cowdray’s page gives the hours below.

It gives the address as 42 North Street, PO19 1NF, while the BID places it at Fernleigh’s own address, used here.

Open Mon to Sat 9am to 5pm; Sun 10am to 3pm
Address Fernleigh, 40 North Street, PO19 1LX
Website cowdray.co.uk/little-cowdray
Good for cheese, charcuterie, local produce, hampers

3. Between The Lines

Between The Lines is a family-run gift, book and card retailer, founded in Midhurst in 1964 by Norman and Mary Brine. It is the largest business here, with 21 shops across the south of England.

Its site shows Christmas ranges including NEOM candles and gift sets. Hours and the address come from the BID directory.

Open Mon to Sat 9am to 5.30pm; Sun 10am to 4pm
Call 01243 530787
Address 79 North Street, PO19 1LQ
Website between.co.uk
Good for cards, books, candles, Chichester Gift Card

Artisan Gallery is a co-operative of 24 local artisans who sell paintings, glass, prints, jewellery and ceramics. The makers run it themselves, and it says two of them are always on the sales desk, so you can ask about the work.

It sells gift vouchers, valid for six months, in the shop or online. The hours are from the BID directory, as the gallery’s site does not publish any.

Open Every day 10am to 4pm
Call 07467 824593
Address 58 North Street, PO19 1NB
Website artisangallerychichester.com
Good for local art, ceramics, jewellery, gift vouchers

5. Comics, Games & Coffee

Comics, Games & Coffee sells comics, graphic novels, manga, board games and trading card games, including Magic: The Gathering and Pokémon, and has a Christmas section and gift cards online. The BID’s guide suggests it for teenagers.

Its Chichester shop is in North House, with gaming rooms on the first floor of 28 North Street and a second shop in Worthing. The evening closing time below is from the BID directory, so check it before a late visit.

Open Mon to Fri 10am to 10pm; Sat 9am to 6pm; Sun 10am to 4pm
Call 01243 789053
Address North House, 66 North Street, PO19 1LR
Website cgc-emporium.com
Good for board games, comics, trading cards, Chichester Gift Card

6. Dartagnan Menswear

Dartagnan has been an independent menswear shop in Chichester since 1969 and is one of the BID’s 12 Indies of Christmas this year. Its site lists brands including Paul Smith, Belstaff, Sunspel, Hackett and Les Deux, and it sells gift cards. It also offers a made-to-measure suit and shirt service, called Black Gold.

Open Mon to Fri 10am to 5pm; Sat 9.30am to 5pm; Sun 11am to 3pm
Call 01243 539491
Address 39 North Street, PO19 1LX
Website dartagnanmenswear.co.uk
Good for menswear, accessories, gift cards, made-to-measure

South Street and the Cathedral

7. The Sussex Bookshop

The Sussex Bookshop has two floors of books in a grade II listed building, once the home of a Victorian poet, with a blue plaque by the door. Its BID listing says it specialises in Sussex writers, literary fiction, nature and travel writing and gift editions, offers next-day ordering on more than 18 million titles, and takes National Book Tokens.

There is a children’s room with a train set. Its own website shows only the address, so the rest comes from that listing.

Open Tue to Sat 10am to 5pm; Sun 10am to 1pm; closed Mon
Address 28 South Street, PO19 1EL
Website thesussexbookshop.co.uk
Good for gift editions, Sussex writers, children's room, dogs welcome

8. Whirligig Toys

Whirligig calls itself an independent toy shop specialising in “things to make and do”: science kits, logic games, arts and crafts and toys for younger children. It has five shops, in Brighton, Canterbury, Chichester, Horsham and Worthing, and says its new Christmas Ideas brochure is ready to download.

The manager is Frances, and the shop dog is called Lottie. The BID directory prints a different Saturday and Sunday; these hours are the shop’s own.

Open Mon to Fri 10am to 5pm; Sat 9.30am to 5pm; Sun 11am to 4pm
Call 01243 931402
Address 62 South Street, PO19 1EE
Website whirligigtoys.co.uk
Good for creative toys, board games, craft kits, Chichester Gift Card

9. Timothy Roe Fine Jewellery

Timothy Roe is a family-owned jeweller established in 1996, with its own designers and craftspeople working on bespoke pieces. It says its workshop staff handle repair and restoration as well as engagement and wedding rings.

It closes at 4pm and is shut on Sundays and Mondays, which makes it one to plan for.

Open Tue to Sat 9.30am to 4pm; closed Sun and Mon
Call 01243 538313
Address 12-13 South Street, PO19 1EH
Website timothyroe.com
Good for bespoke jewellery, repairs, Chichester Gift Card

10. The Cathedral Shop

The Cathedral Shop is run entirely by volunteers. It sells Cathedral souvenirs, items by local craftspeople, fair trade gifts, traditional toys and sacred music.

The Cathedral warns that these hours can change and publishes upcoming closures on its visiting page, including afternoons in December. No Sunday hours are listed.

Open Mon and Wed to Sat 10am to 4pm; Tue 10am to 1pm and 2pm to 4pm
Call 01243 782595
Address Chichester Cathedral, PO19 1PX
Website chichestercathedral.org.uk/visiting-us/cathedral-shop
Good for fair trade gifts, local crafts, traditional toys, sacred music

East Street and the Pallants

11. The Barn

The Barn says it opened in 2020 around slow food, community and wellness, and likes to support emerging brands and independent retail. It has a retail space, an espresso bar and a bakery counter.

Chichester BID recommends its local and British food brands and its ready-made food hampers. The BID still places it in Little London, but The Barn’s website now gives East Street as the address and these hours.

Open Mon to Fri 9am to 3pm; Sat 9am to 5pm; Sun 9am to 3pm; Thu and Fri evenings 5pm to 11pm
Call 01243 769058
Address 40 East Street, PO19 1HX
Website thebarnlittlelondon.com
Listing Our listing
Good for food hampers, local food brands, bakery counter, dogs welcome

12. Oxmarket Contemporary Christmas Shop

Oxmarket’s Christmas Shop sells decorations and gifts by local designers, including ceramic baubles and trees, glass tree decorations and tealight houses, hand-painted seashells, and prints, along with cards, advent calendars and crackers. Oxmarket is a charity supporting artists, and entry is free.

It is in St Andrew’s Court, down the alley off East Street beside the Halifax. Hours are from the BID directory.

Open Tue to Sat 10am to 4.30pm; Sun 12pm to 4pm; closed Mon
Call 01243 779103
Address St Andrew's Court, off East Street, PO19 1YH
Website oxmarket.org
Good for handmade decorations, prints, free entry, dogs welcome

13. Manuka Wholefoods

Manuka is a wholefood shop and cafe catering for vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, reduced-sugar and raw diets. The BID suggests it for Christmas baking and harder-to-find ingredients, and for filling a homemade hamper.

It closes on Saturdays for the Sabbath and closes early on Fridays. Its BID listing gives closing at 3.45pm on the December Fridays, and closed on 25 and 27 December and 1 January.

Open Mon to Fri 9am to 5.30pm, earlier on Fri; Sun 9.30am to 4.30pm; closed Sat
Call 01243 786366
Address 61 East Street, PO19 1HL
Website manukawholefoods.co.uk
Good for Christmas baking, dried fruit and nuts, special diets, Chichester Gift Card

The gallery’s bookshop calls itself an award-winning independent art bookshop, with new, remaindered and out-of-print books on modern British art. It commissions prints and artists’ multiples, stocks limited editions, design products and cards, and sells gift vouchers for admission, talks and workshops.

We could not confirm from its site whether you can visit the shop without a gallery ticket, so ask first. The gallery’s new exhibitions open on 21 November.

Open Tue to Sat 10am to 5pm; Sun 10am to 4pm; closed Mon
Call 01243 774557
Address 9 North Pallant, PO19 1TJ
Website pallant.org.uk/your-visit/shop
Good for art books, limited-edition prints, cards, gift vouchers

The Hornet

The BID published a street guide to The Hornet in January. It is a few minutes’ walk east of the Market Cross, along East Street.

15. Clothkits

Clothkits is a sewing and fabric shop with kits, yarns, patterns, haberdashery and Liberty fabrics, and says it has been making things by hand since 1968. It runs a Christmas section with craft kits, fabrics and ribbon, and a gift guide for people who sew.

It also has gift vouchers and workshops. The BID directory prints a 9.30am opening; these are the shop’s own hours.

Open Mon to Sat 10am to 5pm; closed Sun and bank holidays
Call 01243 533180
Address 16 The Hornet, PO19 7JG
Website clothkits.co.uk
Good for sewing kits, Liberty fabric, gift vouchers, Chichester Gift Card

16. Helter Skelter Records

Helter Skelter has sold records since 1994, and stocks vinyl from the 1950s to the present day, CDs, music DVDs, memorabilia and protective sleeves. It also buys records.

The shop says it is behind Squirrel Antiques and opposite Majestic Wine. Its website looks several years old, though the BID’s 2026 guide still lists the shop, so ring before a special trip.

It is closed on Tuesdays and Sundays.

Open Mon, Wed and Fri 10am to 4.30pm; Thu 11am to 4.30pm; Sat 10.30am to 5pm; closed Tue and Sun
Call 01243 771744
Address 44 The Hornet, PO19 7JG
Website helterskelterrecords.co.uk
Good for vinyl, CDs, music memorabilia

17. The Almshouse Arcade

The Almshouse Arcade is a row of twelve small retail units, established for more than 40 years. Its BID listing names a pop-up bookshop, Almshouse Vintage, Broken Rose gothic clothing, Angels Crystals, Mooman Antiques and Collectors Corner, among others.

The arcade has no website of its own that we could find, so we could not check that list or publish shared opening hours. Each unit keeps its own, so ring first.

Call 01243 967164
Address 19 The Hornet, PO19 7JL
Good for vintage, antiques, crystals, Chichester Gift Card, dogs welcome

18. Hedge Rose

Hedge Rose is an independent florist that sells flowers and gifts, and says it delivers the same day within about 10 miles of Chichester if you order by 10am. Chichester BID names it, with Flower, for wreaths and table arrangements at Christmas.

The address and hours come from its BID listing.

Open Mon to Fri 9am to 5pm; Sat 9am to 4pm; closed Sun
Call 01243 200133
Address 11 The Hornet, PO19 7JL
Website hedgerose.uk
Good for Christmas flowers, same-day delivery, bespoke arrangements

Dates that affect a shopping trip

We found no late-night shopping dates in the BID’s 2026 Christmas pages on 5 November. Several shops above take the Chichester Gift Card, which the BID sells for spending across the city. Our parking page has every car park, and our Christmas travel page covers trains and buses.

How we chose

These are independent Chichester shops chosen on what can be checked: they sell things people give as presents, they are named in Chichester BID’s 2026 Christmas guides or directory, and they have a public record of their own. Between The Lines, Whirligig and Comics, Games & Coffee have shops elsewhere, and we say so. We read each shop’s own website on 5 November 2026 and looked for closure notices. Where a shop’s site gives no hours, we used the BID directory and say so, and where the two disagree we used the shop’s. BID listings are undated, so treat those hours as a guide.

Run a place that should be here, or spot something that has changed? Email newsdesk@chichesterlive.co.uk. Taken a good photograph of any of these places? Email it to newsdesk@chichesterlive.co.uk and we will add it with your name as the credit.

For more locally, see things to do in Chichester, what’s on in Chichester this month, Father Christmas in Chichester, Christmas shows and pantomime, Christmas dinner in Chichester, our guides to Chichester cafes and restaurants, and the Chichester business directory.

Frequently asked questions

Where are the independent shops in Chichester?

Chichester BID says the city has more than 200 independent shops and boutiques, on the four main streets and on side streets including Crane Street, The Hornet, St Martins, Little London and Baffins Lane. This guide lists 18, grouped by street.

When is the Chichester Christmas market in 2026?

The city’s street market is on North Street and East Street from Friday 4 to Sunday 6 December and Friday 11 to Sunday 13 December 2026, according to Chichester BID.

Is there free Christmas parking in Chichester in 2026?

Chichester BID says parking at the Avenue de Chartres multi-storey is free from 4pm on Saturday 21 November. On 4, 5, 6, 11, 12 and 13 December, you get a third hour free there when you buy two hours through MiPermit.