Mersey Ferry Terminal - Newton Memorial

From Broadbent Studio:

The aim was to create a memorial sculpture, inspired by the life of the former slave ship captain and Liverpool Harbour Master – John Newton, for the new Mersey Ferry Terminal building, at Liverpool’s Pier Head….

John Newton, following a religious conversion in 1748, an event which is believed to have inspired the writing of ‘Amazing Grace’, renounced his past as a slave trader and became a Tide Surveyor of Liverpool. Newton then went on to become an Anglican priest and joined forces with William Wilberforce to campaign for the abolition of the slave trade, this side of the Atlantic.