Dozens of big screens will show Saturday’s coronation, allowing tens of thousands of people to watch.
Some will also be showing Sunday’s coronation concert, which will feature artists such as Take That, Katy Perry and Lionel Richie.
On Saturday, the King and Queen Consort’s procession will set off from Buckingham Palace at 10.20am and arrive at Westminster Abbey at 10.53am.
The service will begin at 11am and last for two hours, with the key moment coming at midday when the King is crowned. The Archbishop of Canterbury will place the St Edward’s Crown on Charles’s head. Trumpets will sound and gun salutes will be fired across the UK.
Read on below to see details of all the public screenings that are set to take place around the UK over the weekend.
In England:
– The north west will be able to host 24,000 people at public
screenings.
– Manchester’s Piccadilly Gardens will broadcast the ceremony and Sunday’s concert with capacity to host 5,000 people. It will also be hosting a Big Lunch before the concert.
– Oldham’s Parliament Square will broadcast the coronation ceremony, with a capacity of 3,000, followed by a musical event.
– Liverpool’s Eurovision Village on the Pier Head will broadcast the coronation ceremony with a capacity to host 16,000 people.
– The north east will be able to host 15,060 people at public screenings of the coronation.
– In Sunderland there will be screens at Keel Square, Park Lane, Hylton Castle, Town Moor, Rectory Park and Barnes Park.
– Newcastle’s Times Square will broadcast the coronation ceremony and concert with capacity to host 2,500 people.
– Alnwick Castle will broadcast the coronation ceremony with a capacity to host 1,500 people.
– Darlington’s Market Square will broadcast the coronation ceremony and concert with capacity to host 2,500 people.
– Yorkshire and Humber in total will be able to host at least 35,000 people at public screenings of the coronation.
– Bradford’s Centenary Square will broadcast the coronation ceremony and have capacity to host 5,000 people.
– Halifax’s Piece Hall will broadcast the coronation ceremony with a capacity of 13,500.
– Leeds’s Millennium Square will broadcast the ceremony and have capacity to host 5,800 people.
– Pontefract Castle will have capacity to host 2,000 people for the coronation service and 7,000 people for the coronation concert.
– Sheffield’s Peace Gardens will broadcast the ceremony and concert with capacity to host 2,000 people.
– Barnsley’s Glass Works will broadcast the ceremony and concert with capacity to host 2,000 people.
– Other screenings will take place in Huddersfield’s St Peter’s Parish Church and Dewsbury Library.
– Some 16,150 people will be able to watch at events in south-west England.
– In Bristol, the cathedral will have capacity for 650 for the ceremony.
– Bristol and Bath Science Park in South Gloucestershire will hold 2,500 for the ceremony and concert.
– Bournemouth’s Lower Gardens will broadcast the ceremony and concert with capacity to host up to 1,000 people.
– Poole’s Baiter Park will show the ceremony and concert with a capacity of 1,000.
– Christchurch’s The Quomps will broadcast the ceremony and concert with capacity to host up to 3,000 people.
– Plymouth’s The Barbican will hold 3,000 for the ceremony and concert.
– Southampton’s Westquay on the Esplanade will broadcast the ceremony and concert with a capacity of 5,000.
– In the south east, Brighton’s Jubilee Square will broadcast the ceremony with capacity to host 500 people.
– In London, public screens will show the coronation in St James’s Park, Hyde Park and Green Park.
– Walpole Park, Ealing, will show the coronation with a capacity to host 6,000 people.
– Valence Park, Dagenham, will have capacity to host 7,000 people for the coronation ceremony.
– Holland Park will have capacity to host 4,000 people for the ceremony.
– Battersea Park will have capacity to host 2,500 and show the ceremony and concert.
– In the east of England, Huntingdon’s Commemoration Hall will broadcast the ceremony and concert with capacity to host 1,000 people.
– Peterborough’s Cathedral and Cathedral Gardens will broadcast the ceremony and concert to up to 1,250.
– Ely’s Cathedral will broadcast the ceremony and concert with a capacity of 1,000.
– In Cambridge, screenings will take place at The Meadows Community Centre and Clay Farm Centre.
– In the Midlands, around 18,000 people will be able to attend public screenings.
– Birmingham’s Centenary Square will broadcast the ceremony and concert to 1,500 people.
– Coventry’s Broadgate will broadcast the ceremony and have capacity to host 10,000 people over the course of the day.
– Dudley’s Himley Hall will broadcast the ceremony with a capacity of 600.
– Sandwell’s Valley Showground will broadcast the concert and have capacity to host 2,000 people.
– Solihull’s The Core will broadcast the ceremony with capacity to host 475 people.
– Derby’s Cathedral will broadcast the coronation ceremony and have capacity to host 800 people.
– Stoke-on-Trent’s Smithfield site will broadcast the ceremony and concert and have capacity to host 500 people.
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– Nottingham Castle will broadcast the ceremony and concert and have capacity to host 1,500 people.
– Leicester’s De Montfort University city centre campus will broadcast the ceremony and have capacity to host 600 people.
– In Wales, around 4,000 people will be able to attend public screenings.
– Cardiff Castle will have capacity for 2,000 to watch the coronation ceremony.
– Roald Dahl Plass in Cardiff Bay will have capacity to host 2,000 people for the concert.
– Some 6,200 people will be able to attend screenings in Scotland.
– Edinburgh’s Ross Bandstand in Princes Street will broadcast the coronation ceremony and concert and have capacity to host 5,000 people.
– Glasgow Cathedral will broadcast the ceremony and concert to 1,200 people.
– In Northern Ireland, around 15,000 people will be able to view the coronation on public screens.
– Belfast’s City Hall will broadcast the ceremony to 2,000 people.
– Ballymena’s People’s Park will broadcast the ceremony and have capacity to host 1,000 people.
– Larne’s Town Park will broadcast the ceremony and have capacity to host 1,000 people.
– Carrickfergus’s Marine Gardens will broadcast the ceremony and have capacity to host 1,000 people.
– Lisburn’s Market Square will broadcast the coronation ceremony to 600 people.
– Bessbrook Town Hall will broadcast the ceremony and have capacity to host 400 people.
– Antrim Castle Gardens will hold up to 3,000 people for the coronation ceremony.
– Newtownabbey’s Jordanstown Loughshore Park will broadcast the ceremony and have capacity to host 3,000 people.
– Coleraine Town Hall will broadcast the coronation ceremony and have capacity to host 3,000 people.
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