{"id":736,"date":"2019-01-13T21:30:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T21:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bromleycivicsociety.org.uk\/?p=736"},"modified":"2019-10-04T19:11:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T19:11:46","slug":"former-school-of-art-science-now-the-clockhouse-heritage-building-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bromleycivicsociety.org.uk\/2019\/01\/former-school-of-art-science-now-the-clockhouse-heritage-building-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Former School of Art &#038; Science (now the Clockhouse) &#8211; Heritage Building Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The School of Science and Art stands opposite the Edwardian Town Hall. The external relief terracotta panels include representations of science and art. The original building was designed by John Sulman and was built in 1878 by J C Arnauld at a cost of \u00a33,000. The public opening included a display of the first working telephones ever made. The building was extended in 1894 to provide the town\u2019s first library.<\/p>\n<p>It was sold and converted into flats.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_780\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bromleycivicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/06oct_7178-cut-cupula-bromley-old-library.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-780\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-780 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bromleycivicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/06oct_7178-cut-cupula-bromley-old-library-300x292.jpg\" alt=\"stylish copper green cupula on hexagonal tower\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bromleycivicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/06oct_7178-cut-cupula-bromley-old-library-300x292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bromleycivicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/06oct_7178-cut-cupula-bromley-old-library.jpg 443w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-780\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cupola of the old Arts and Science college in 2006<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bromleycivicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1960s-old-library.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-781 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bromleycivicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1960s-old-library-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bromleycivicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1960s-old-library-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bromleycivicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1960s-old-library.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the 1960s<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The School of Science and Art stands opposite the Edwardian Town Hall. The external relief terracotta panels include representations of science and art. The original building was designed by John Sulman and was built in 1878 by J C Arnauld &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bromleycivicsociety.org.uk\/2019\/01\/former-school-of-art-science-now-the-clockhouse-heritage-building-profile\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[88],"tags":[34,35,60],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6vRlR-bS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bromleycivicsociety.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bromleycivicsociety.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bromleycivicsociety.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bromleycivicsociety.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bromleycivicsociety.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bromleycivicsociety.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783,"href":"https:\/\/www.bromleycivicsociety.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bromleycivicsociety.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bromleycivicsociety.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bromleycivicsociety.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}