Relief: St George's Hall

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Thomas Stirling Lee was originally tasked with designing 28 panels encircling the base of the hall, but less than half were finished, and not all by Lee himself. Problems began with the first panel, one of a planned series of six depicting "The Attributes and Results of Justice": it sparked outrage because "the child Justice" was nude — as was "the girl Justice" in the next panel. Eventually allowed to continue that series, which is situated to the left of the central portico, Lee also designed two panels in a different series to the right of the portico, with this representation of shipwrights serving as an example. These panels tell "The Story of Liverpool," where ship-building played a major role. Other panels in the series were designed by Charles James Allen and Conrad Dressler. Benedict Read comments on these New Sculpture works, stating that "the field of architectural sculpture was something the movement's apologists considered it created particularly for itself".