[3] In the early 1890s, civic leaders decided to demolish the old structure, which had become decrepit and unsafe, and to commission a new town hall on the same site.

[4] The new building was designed by Meeke and Bramall in the Italianate style, built in red brick with stone dressings at a cost of £3,250 and completed in 1892.

[5] The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with eight bays facing onto the Market Square; the central section of two bays featured two round-headed windows on the ground floor with a single large round-headed window on the first floor flanked by pilasters supporting a pediment containing a clock in the tympanum.

[7] The Leader of the Labour Party, George Lansbury, visited the town hall but fell and broke his thigh while attending a fete there on 9 December 1933.

[13] The neighbourhood plan published by Gainsborough Town Council in October 2019 recommended that steps be taken to "return the façade to its previous glory.