[3] Turing is depicted sitting on a bench situated in a central position in the park, holding an apple.

Humphry had come up with the idea of a statue after seeing Hugh Whitemore's play Breaking the Code, starring Derek Jacobi.

[5] The inscription in relief on the cast bronze bench reads "Alan Mathison Turing 1912–1954" and "IEKYF ROMSI ADXUO KVKZC GUBJ".

[10] A planning application held by Manchester Archives and Local Studies[11][12] contains two additional codes that were seemingly intended to be included in the memorial: "MBJSU UEZGQ VKMXC AFROI HHKYD" which decodes to "Pioneer of digital computing" and also "LJYDN VCDTO BAWQL PURCX IZNVE" which was intended to be on the plaque by Turing's feet.

A plaque at the statue's feet reads "Father of Computer Science, Mathematician, Logician, Wartime Codebreaker, Victim of Prejudice", followed by the Bertrand Russell quotation "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty, a beauty cold and austere like that of sculpture."