Research has indicated that the actual work carried out on the cemetery, which opened in 1843 (the year of his death), does not correspond closely with Loudon's announcements.
The design as built was Gothic and made of white brick, not in the Italian style put forward by Lamb and Loudon.
[1][4] The chapel contained a memorial dated 1851 to Ebenezer Foster (1777-1851) and his wife Elizabeth, by James Rattee.
[13] From 2007 the cemetery has been run by Cambridge City Council (Open Spaces) working with its Friends group.
A listing of monumental inscriptions was made by Lucy Joan Slater (unpublished, deposited at Cambridge Record Office).