Southampton Civic Centre

The Civic Centre is a municipal building located in the Cultural Quarter area within the city of Southampton, England.

It was designed by the English architect Ernest Berry Webber in the Classical style in 1929 and constructed over a ten-year period.

Pevsner's Hampshire: South describes it as "the most ambitious civic building erected in the provinces in the interwar years".

[3] After extensive discussions about the proposed civic centre, Herbert Austin-Hall was appointed to assess a design competition for the new building.

[4] Following the competition, Ernest Berry Webber was chosen to design the centre in the Classical style with a budget of just under £400,000.

Some of the material dug out during the construction of the south wing was used to fill in an old reservoir on Southampton Common as part of the process of converting it into a paddling pool.

During a raid in November 1940 twelve bombs were dropped, including a direct hit on the Civic Centre with a 500 lb (230 kg) high explosive.