Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School

Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School is a boys' grammar school with academy status in Rochester, Kent, also referred to either as Rochester Math or The Math School.
The school was founded by the statesman Sir Joseph Williamson , lord of the nearby Manor of Cobham, Kent, who in his will bequeathed £5,000 to set up the school and another at Thetford in Norfolk, which town he had served as a Member of Parliament. The school was termed a mathematical school because it specialised in teaching navigation and mathematics to the sons of Freemen of the City of Rochester, the Chatham Naval Dockyard being nearby.
The first building was in 1708 when a "school house" was built in part of the filled up moat outside the city walls. In 1840 additional rooms were built and in both 1882 and 1893 additions were made. In the late 1960s the buildings were demolished and the site is now a car park next to a nightclub. It is said that the local authority did not know part of the old city wall with a small tower ran through the school buildings, and as a result no further development of the site was allowed. The school's playing fields and swimming pool were originally by the River Medway off Rochester Esplanade; they are now off Maidstone Road, Rochester, next to the area known as Priestfields . An annexe was built at the Maidstone Road site in the 1950s, housing the second and third years only. In autumn 1968, the whole school moved to a new building the site. Initially this featured a main block, hall, sports hall, gymnasium, 25-metre indoor swimming pool and science block. The school's music block was expanded in 2005 to include a new teaching room and several new practice rooms.

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