Round off the Summer holidays by helping to complete a huge LEGO® Mosaic currently being built a the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth. The Mary Rose is the famous flagship of King Henry VII, which sank in battle, off the South Coast of England way back in 1545. This summer, the Mary Rose are asking visitors to build a giant 12 x 3 metre LEGO brick mosaic, one of the largest ever built in Britain: https://maryrose.org/news/help
In partnership with Bright Bricks, the Mary Rose want help to recreate the famous Cowdray engraving of the Battle of the Solent, featuring the sinking of the Mary Rose.
This particular LEGO brick mosaic will be based on The Encampment of the English forces near Portsmouth Cowdray engraving which offers an aerial view of Tudor Portsmouth. The fleet of French King, Francis I, can be seen battling King Henry VIII’s ships on 19 July 1545, the fateful day the Mary Rose sank. As the battle wages on in Solent waters, Henry VIII watches from nearby Southsea Castle.
Weighing 236 kilos, once finished, the mosaic will comprise 9,218 tiles, carrying 589,924 1×1 bricks. Stacked on top of each other, the bricks would reach a distance of 5.662 km high. That’s just over 3,000 Henry VIII’s standing on top of each other!
