The Bayswater Road Cemetery and St Mark's, North Audley Street were under the control of the St. George's Hanover Square Burial Board, who were unable to find a solution until the Metropolitan Interments Act 1850 became law.

Robert Jerrard was appointed as architect, who designed the church and administration buildings in a Victorian Gothic revival architecture style.

The council undertook extensive restoration of the central buildings in 1994, and in 2001 replaced the entire roof and cleaned the exterior walls, as well as making all provisions required under the Disability Discrimination Act.

A number of people killed during World War II in air raids were buried temporarily during the conflict, and then reburied afterwards.

Unveiled in 1950, it houses the grave of popular singer Al Bowlly, who was killed at his flat in Jermyn Street during an air raid on 17 April 1941.