Barefoot tours of Westminster Abbey offered after coronation

Feet for a king: Westminster Abbey barefoot tour a crowning achievement for Charles’ coronation

A shoeless Abbey Marshal Howard Berry walks across the center of the Cosmati pavement, located in front of the altar at Westminster Abbey in central London.AP LONDON — People who visit London’s Westminster Abbey after the coronation of King Charles III will be allowed to stand on the exact spot where he was crowned, but they will need to make sure they don’t have holes in their socks for the shoeless tour, designed to protect the abbey’s mediev…

Westminster Abbey to offer tourists shoeless access to coronation spot

The Cosmati pavement, where the coronation chair has been placed for some 700 years, will be on display during Charles’ May 6 coronation but visitors will need to remove their shoes to protect the medieval floor.

Westminster Abbey will offer barefoot tours after King Charles is crowned—but you have to keep your socks on

The section of the church's floor known as the Cosmati pavement, where the chair in which Britain's monarchs are crowned has been placed for some 700 years, will be on display for tours.

Feet for a king: Westminster Abbey to offer barefoot tours

Visitors of London's Westminster Abbey after the coronation of King Charles will be allowed to stand on the exact spot where he was crowned.

Feet for a king: Westminster Abbey to offer barefoot tours

The mosaic is said to be the best surviving example outside Italy of a rare type of stonework known as 'Cosmati,' after the Italian family which created it

Westminster Abbey to Offer Shoeless Tours Following King Charles' Coronation

Visitors to London’s Westminster Abbey will be allowed to stand for the first time on the exact spot where King Charles III will be crowned. But they will...