Worthing Town Hall Including Assembly Hall And Worthing Room

Worthing Town Hall, including the Assembly Hall and Worthing Room, was built in 1933-1934 and designed by architect C. Cowles Voysey, with detailing by J. Brandon-Jones. The Town Hall features a Neo-Georgian style, consisting of a central section flanked by two wings. The central part is three storeys high, constructed of red brick, topped with a hipped slate roof and a stone eave cornice. It has a band below the second floor and a plinth, with nine sash windows set in moulded architraves. A central Ionic portico displays the motto "EX TERRA COPIAM E MARI SALUTEM," and the first-floor windows behind the portico have cast iron balconettes. The doorcase features console brackets, and a clock tower with a cupola is topped by a ball finial and eight Tuscan columns with plumed capitals. The two-storey wings match the central section in style, also made of red brick with a slate roof, stone cornice, and plinth, and five sash windows, along with similar doorcases featuring entablatures and console brackets.

The Assembly Hall at the rear is designed in a Scandinavian Modernist style with Art Deco influences. It is two storeys high, built of red brick, with a cornice made of bricks set endwise. The hall has five bays, with the three central ones projecting and featuring three Art Deco style stone tragic masks over waves above the first-floor windows. It includes pivoting casement windows and triple bronze doors with eight panels divided by stone rustication and a wave-patterned cornice that incorporates the letter W for Worthing. A canopy is positioned above the entrance, which is accessed by six steps flanked by large stone urns on square plinths.

The Worthing Room is a one-storey addition to the west, designed to match the main building. Inside the Town Hall, there is an impressive marble entrance hall with a staircase featuring an elaborate cast iron balustrade. The Assembly Hall contains Art Deco style reliefs with a marine theme and star-shaped light fittings, and the proscenium arch is flanked by relief sea horses.