The cemetery chapel was built between 1870 and 1874, designed by engineer Gustavo Adolfo Gonçalves, and expanded in 1906 by architect José Marques da Silva.

The Byzantine-style frescoes were the work of Italian painter Silvestro Silvestri, in 1910.The cemetery contains private cemeteries of three Religious orders; the Carmelites, the Order of Friars Minor and the Trinitarians, who had negotiated with Porto City Council to have private areas within Agramonte to replace their cemeteries, which were in danger of being closed down.

[1][2][3][4][5] The cemetery contains a large memorial to the 120 victims of a fire that destroyed the Teatro Baquet in 1888.

It is constructed largely from pieces of the theatre building that survived the fire.

Several well-known people are buried in the cemetery, such as the archaeologist António Augusto da Rocha Peixoto, the cellist Guilhermina Suggia, the filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira and the actress Emília Eduarda.