Southend Civic Centre is a municipal building in Victoria Avenue, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England.

Originally the Civic Centre incorporated the whole development of municipal buildings located between Carnarvon Road and Southend Central Museum.

[4] As the responsibilities of the council increased, it secured additional office accommodation around Southend, but in the 1940s, the civic leaders decided to co-locate all its staff in one location.

[13] It was initially placed outside the Court House further south along Victoria Avenue but when councillors decided to relocate the sculpture to the civic square there was a backlash from protestors who objected to the sexual nature of the artist's work which depicted the thunder god, Zeus, in the form of a swan, raping a woman.

[14] The sculpture was initially moved to the courtyard of the Palace Theatre in Westcliff-on-Sea and but it was later relocated to the mayor's residence where it was placed safely out of view.