[1] In 2002 it was designated by Historic England as a Grade II registered park or garden.

The cemetery is mainly bordered by housing, on the north, east and south faces, and by City Road on the west.

On City Road is the main entrance which features Grade II listed gatehouse which houses the reception and halls of remembrance.

A Screen Wall memorial in Section Q, near the main entrance, lists those buried in graves that could not be individually marked by headstones.

[3] There are 147 burials or commemorations of servicemen and women who died in the Second World War, many in a war graves plot in Section H. The plot has a Screen Wall memorial listing servicemen buried in the defunct Sheffield General Cemetery and St Phillip Ward End Church Cemetery whose graves could no longer be maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.