In the corners of the column stood four statues of angels symbolizing the four cardinal virtues fighting the forces of evil.

[citation needed] During the Prussian siege in 1757, the southwest corner sculpture was damaged by a cannonball during the shelling of Prague.

Hus was the founder of the Hussites, a pre-Protestant religious reform movement, who was executed by the Catholic Church for heresy.

[9] The remaining parts of the column were removed on the night of 18–19 December 1918 and taken to the courtyard of the Church of St. Anna in the Old Town.

Fragments of the statue of the Virgin Mary, the four sculptures with angels, and the stone railings were stored in the Prague Lapidarium at Výstaviště Praha.

An almost identical statue of the Virgin Mary by Bendel, created in 1673, is located on the Marian Column in Louny.

This part of the work was completed in 2002 and installed in the southern yard of the Church of Our Lady before Týn (Chrám Matky Boží před Týnem) in Prague.

The reconstruction of the column was rejected several times, most recently in September 2017, when city councillors suggested that it divided the people of Prague, rather than reconciling them.

[11] Before the expiry of the building permit on 29 May 2019, the contractor tried to start the construction by uncovering the foundations of the original column.

A few days later, 26 Czech art historians published a call not to allow the city authorities to renew the column.

The pedestal is made of Pietra Dorata sandstone from Siena and was dedicated by the Italian town of Vitorchiano.