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 third and fourth oldest university institutions, rather than the third and fourth oldest universities. The critical questions for King's College London are whether it gained "de facto" university status from its foundation and has managed to keep this status since, despite the objections above, and whether, if it has, UCL attained "de facto" university status before King's College (see discussion above). If both of these are answered in King's College's favour, then it is the third oldest university in England. Durham University's claim is based on it being the third institution to gain official recognitions as a university, through the