[2] Following significant population growth, largely associated with March's increasing importance as a market town, the area became an urban district in 1895.

[2] The new building was designed by W. T. Unwin in the Renaissance style, built in red brick with stone dressings at a cost of £3,000 and was completed in 1900.

[5] The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage with eight bays facing onto the Market Square.

[1] The clock, which was designed and manufactured by Sainsbury Brothers, was paid for by public subscription and installed to celebrate the Diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria.

[9] The building was acquired and refurbished by the March Civic Trust, with funding from a former mayor, Peter Skoulding, in 2005.