Chartist Mural

The Chartist Mural was a large mosaic made in 1978 by the British artist Kenneth Budd for a pedestrian underpass in Newport, Wales, built up from around 200,000 tiles and pieces of glass across a wall about 115 feet long and 13 feet high. It commemorated the Newport Rising of 1839, showing armed Chartist marchers advancing on the Westgate Hotel behind banners representing the six points of the People Charter, and the moment soldiers inside opened fire on the crowd, killing an estimated 22 demonstrators. Budd spent four months researching the rising with the help of Newport Museum before completing the work, which was demolished by Newport City Council in October 2013 citing safety and cost concerns, a decision that drew national criticism for the lack of public consultation; a smaller replacement mural by Oliver Budd, son of Kenneth Budd, was unveiled at a different site in 2019. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/