The first purpose-built town hall, which was designed in the neoclassical style with a tetrastyle portico and a clock tower was completed in June 1835.

[5] The war memorial at the site, which takes the form of a bronze statue of a soldier holding a rifle mounted on a stone plinth, pre-dates the town hall: it was sculpted by Joseph Whitehead and Sons and unveiled by Field-Marshal Sir William Robertson on 11 April 1921.

[7] It was designed by Charles Cowles-Voysey in the Neo-Georgian style, built in red brick with ashlar stone dressings at a cost of £398,117 and was officially opened by Prince George on 22 May 1933.

[8] The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with nineteen bays facing onto Chapel Road; the central section of nine bays, which slightly projected forward, featured a three-bay tetrastyle portico with Ionic order columns supporting an entablature inscribed with the words "Ex terra copiam e mari salutum" (English: "From the land fulness and from the sea health") and a large pediment.

[1] The foyer of the assembly hall was decorated with two panels, one on the left and the other on the right, each designed by the sculptor, Laurence Bradshaw, and depicting a male figure standing astride two fishes.

[10] In October 1934, the town hall was the starting point for the Battle of South Street, a riot which took place in the town as members of the British Union of Fascists and various anti-fascist protesters clashed after a newly elected fascist councillor, Charles Budd, failed to secure the committee places he desired on the council.

[14] Built in a Scandinavian-influenced Classical style, Worthing Town Hall was designed by Charles Cowles-Voysey, with detailing by John Brandon-Jones.