Beneath the canopy, and supported on a granite and marble pedestal, with a base and cornice of the costly variety of granite called "Correine," is a colossal bronze seated figure of the Prince, for which a sketch was made by the late Baron Marochetti, but actually designed by the late John Foley, and his last work, remarkable for calm majesty of bearing and consummate technical skill.
A double quadrangular pyramid of steps of grey Irish granite, with landings paved with stone of different colours, including white mountain limestone from Derbyshire, red magnesian sandstone from Nottinghamshire, and dark slate stone from Leicestershire, leads up to a podium of two kinds of granite and marble, forming the base of the great canopy, and enriched by a magnificent frieze of sculpture by J. P. Philip and H. Armstead - by many critics considered the finest part of the Monument - containing two hundred life-sized portrait statues in high relief of some of the greatest men of science and literature, artists, and musicians whom the world has produced.