Where was Jingle Bell Heist filmed?

London, starting December 2023. The department store on screen is a mix of a shut hotel, a campus library and visual effects.

Sterlings is not Harrods or Selfridges

The shop is fictional. Atlas of Wonders matches the street facade to the Loughborough Hotel in Brixton, at the corner of Loughborough Road and Evandale Road. The Victorian building is permanently closed, and the production stretched the frontage upward in effects so it reads as a multi-floor emporium. Shoppers walking the galleries are inside the Greenwich Avery Hill Mansion Site Library, the 1902 Winter Garden that now holds books. Maxwell’s office is the Royal Masonic Hospital in Hammersmith, a 1933 art deco block near Ravenscourt Park that shut in the early 2000s. I am not telling you those two closed buildings are open for tours.

The rest of the London list

A street violin plays outside Heaven Café on Loughborough Road, which is still a café. Nick looks at flats at Leeland Mansions in West Ealing. His phone-repair stop is Phone Service in Deptford, with Elmore House in Brixton used for the shared flat and Deptford town centre for the square nearby. The kiss happens at The Victory pub in east London, a Tudor-style room used inside and out. The “salt beef” meal is F Cooke pie and mash in Hoxton. The ice rink is Queens London in Bayswater, a rink from 1930. The Santa walk that looks like it might be Deptford station is Olympic Way at Wembley Park. The Campbell gala is Freemasons’ Hall in Covent Garden. Deptford railway station is only an establishing shot. Yahoo’s lifestyle write-up repeats this London set, and Wikipedia only says the shoot was in London.

Place matched to a scene
On screenReal placeAreaStatus
Store exteriorLoughborough HotelBrixton SW91 source
Store interiorAvery Hill libraryGreenwich SE91 source
Maxwell’s officeRoyal Masonic HospitalHammersmith W61 source
The VictoryThe Victory pubeast London E21 source
GalaFreemasons’ HallCovent Garden1 source
Ice rinkQueens LondonBayswater W21 source

Questions people ask

Is the Sterling department store real?

No. The name Sterlings is fictional. The outside is the closed Loughborough Hotel and the inside is a university library.

Can I visit the Avery Hill library?

It is a campus library. Visiting rules were not part of the location articles, so I am not promising public entry.

Was the Santa walk filmed at Deptford station?

The station is an establishing shot. The walk itself is Olympic Way in Wembley Park, according to Atlas of Wonders.

Sources

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