Established by the St Marylebone Burial Board, the cemetery follows the garden cemetery model with sweeping carriage drives, paired Anglican and Nonconformist chapels, and an entrance lodge. Lawns and mature conifers and broadleaf trees give a park-like character, while elaborate Victorian monuments line the walks. As an early municipal cemetery for central London parishes, it illustrates the 19th-century move to landscaped burial grounds on city outskirts.