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Lace Market, Nottingham — Area Guide & Where to Stay
The Lace Market is a quarter-mile square in the centre of Nottingham, once the trading floor of the world's lace industry.
About Lace Market
Where to stay in Lace Market
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Beds here sit inside the warehouses themselves, with conversions on the streets around St Mary's Church putting guests a few doors from the National Justice Museum and Nottingham Contemporary. Nights are loud. The bars and restaurants that took over the old salesrooms run late, so light sleepers do better towards Newdigate House and the Castle Gate Congregational Centre at the quieter rim.
Central Nottingham begins at the doorstep.
About Lace Market
What are the main landmarks in Lace Market?
St Mary's Church anchors the square. The National Justice Museum and Nottingham Contemporary sit within a few streets of it, and the Lace Market Theatre keeps a stage inside the same conservation area. Willoughby House, Newdigate House and County House are among the named warehouse blocks that give these streets their frontages.
Exchange House and Alexandra House repeat the pattern. St Peter's Church and St Nicholas' Church stand a short walk off, with the Castle Gate Congregational Centre closer still.
What is the history of Lace Market?
Lace built it. The quarter was once the centre of the world's lace industry, its warehouses given over to storing, displaying and selling the cloth rather than to making it. Salesrooms filled the upper floors.
That trade left, and the quarter-mile square holds a conservation designation instead, its warehouse blocks in central Nottingham, England given over to bars, restaurants and shops.
Where is Lace Market?
The Lace Market covers a quarter-mile square in the centre of Nottingham, a compact grid of former lace warehouses stepping down around St Mary's Church.
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Updated September 2026