Queen’s Lane Coffee House stands on the corner of Queen’s Lane and the High Street and has played a part in Oxford’s rich and varied history.
For here, in 1654, Cirques Jobson is said to have started selling the favourite new drink, coffee. Thus, Queen’s Lane Coffee House is reputed to be the oldest coffee house in Europe.
During the seventeenth century, the coffee house was a favourite haunt of scholars to debate issues of the times.
