Principal features are two Lebanon Cedar trees planted on the front lawn.

The council was forced, after the move had been declared unlawful, to repurchase the cemetery but was unable to buy back the crematorium.

[6] The monuments to Thomas Skarratt Hall (supposedly based on the Sarcophagus of Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus, it originally had 4 bronze angels, which were stolen in 1989),[7] Harry Ripley (by William Reid Dick),[8] Peter Nicol Russell,[9] Thomas Tate (by Frank Lynn Jenkins),[10] and the mausoleum (by Arthur Blomfield) of Algernon Borthwick, 1st Baron Glenesk and his wife and son, are all listed Grade II,[11] The cemetery was awarded a Green Flag Award in 2007, 2008 and 2009.

A Screen Wall memorial, behind the Cross of Sacrifice, records the names of the 20 World War II casualties who were cremated at the St Marylebone Crematorium.

There are also special memorials to eight World War I servicemen whose graves could not be marked by headstones.