A bronze statue of Sadler in court dress and mayoral robes with a scroll in his right hand. The pedestal is decorated with the town’s coat of arms in bronze. A low semi-circular wall of pink marble flanking the pedestal on either side carries bronze panels at each end. In his design Lanteri strove ‘to represent a genial, lively, hearty, generous gentleman’. Although some of the committee had expressed a preference for a modern frock coat, he insisted on court dress as a way of suggesting Sadler’s knighthood and mayoral robes to indicate his contribution to civic life, in the belief that these were ‘more worthy of the man and at the same time more sculptural’. Lanteri also added a semi-circular wall so as to get rid of ‘the impression so often felt in isolated statues, of a pawn on a chessboard to be removed at will.