Theatre Royal, Drury Lane Theatre Royal, Drury Lane The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, commonly known as Drury Lane, is a West End theatre and Grade I listed building in Covent Garden, London, England. The building faces Catherine Street (earlier named Bridges or Brydges Street) and backs onto Drury Lane. The building is the most recent in a line of four theatres which were built at the same location, the earliest of which dated back to 1663, making it the oldest theatre site in London still in use. According to the author Peter Thomson, for its first two centuries, Drury Lane could "reasonably have claimed
Third-oldest university in England debate taken for its foundation. The second critical question is whether either University College London or King's College London should be considered "de facto" universities prior to this, despite the objections given in their discussions. If neither of them qualifies, and if the first question established Durham as the third oldest "de jure" university, then Durham is the third oldest university in England. The University of London's claim is based on it being the third institute in England to receive a Royal Charter as a university and the claim that it was the third university in England to gain degree awarding