Clarendon Shopping Centre

Great place to go shopping, but in souvenirs and or eating! It has something for everyone so please do go ahead and visit it’s the best !

A bright, airy space with all the necessaries — Currys, Costa, GAP, H Samuel and several phone shops, among others — conveniently located on Cornmarket.

Great shop very large good kids department upstairs, big changing area. my only gripe would be the lift, if the children are up stairs you are going to get people with prams and pushcahirs but they will struggle in the small lift.

I’m not a huge fan of shopping centres, I have to say, but the Clarendon Centre is actually pretty good. It’s in a nice location just off Cornmarket, with another exit on Queen Street and has a good range of shops including Gap, River Island, Zara, and loads more, most of which are really useful. It’s well lit, clean, well kept, and convenient for just about anywhere in the city. The only annoying thing is that there is no seating anywhere, which is annoying for old people and for people who just can’t be bothered to follow their wives around while they buy everything in sight. Ah well, you can’t have everything.

The Clarendon shopping centre is more modern and brighter than its slightly poorer cousin across the road (Westgate centre).
Some fabulous shops including:
French Connection lovely clothes with ladies downstairs and mens (not so good) upstairs
Body shop smells yummy and very nice helpful staff
Office — my favourite shoe shop
River Island again ladies downstairs and men upstairs (not great, a bit unfashionable)
Zara classy and elegant with helpful staff. Great ladies on the ground floor with mens and childrens upstairs. Quite a large size store too
Gap good for those basics
A lovely little boutique whose name escapes me just now they sell gorgeous ladies clothes and handbags
The Christmas decorations this year are a bit dodgy though nice lights but one very strange looking santa riding a reindeer
My only complaint about this centre is that is has absolutely no seats for tired boyfriends waiting for us girls to stop shopping!

The more ‘classy’ shopping centre in Oxford, the Clarendon carries a number of designer labels unlike it’s counterpart — the Westgate. The centre is small, with the list of shops in the review below. Note though, that it is open 7 days a week, not 5 as stated below.
There are often promotional staff situated in the centre — Paintballing, Sky and Cars seem to be common themes. There is minimal seating available.

The Clarendon Centre is useful enough. It contains all those useful shops with unglamorous names that sell jewellery, herbs and mobile phones. It’s great for when it rains, as it’s all undercover, but you could really be in any generic shopping centre and you miss out on the buzzing Oxford atmosphere.
There are lots of places to get coffee or snacks, although toilets outside of these are hard to find.
It’s also a useful place to look at community notices: clubs are advertised here, as well as special local events such as art displays, concerts and festivals

Slightly more classy than the neighbouring westgate centre, the clarendon has an array of clothes shops such as River Island and Gap to coffee shops like costa coffee.
There is an electronics shop (i think its a Curry’s), an Accessorize, a nice Tie shop and also a jewellery shop.
Its not overly large but has more of a variety than the westgate and is more conveniently placed as it leads from one main shopping street to the next.
There is a free to use cash machine inside.
I have just found a full list of the Clarendon shops:
H Samuel
T-​Mobile
Costa Coffee (new store)
Claire’s Accessories
River Island
O2
The Perfume Shop
Boost Juice
The Body Shop
Ann Summers
Dr & Herbs
Vacant
Millie’s Cookies
Tie Rack
French Connection
Ernest Jones
Office
Bay Trading
Curry’s.Digital
Vacant
Dolland & Aitchison
3 Store (new store)
Zara
Gap
Robert Dyas
It is open 5 days a week :)