They are also nature conservation sites of Borough Importance Grade 1 and a haven for wildlife, plants and wildflowers.

Evidence of Deptford's seafaring past can be found in the many inscriptions and adornments on the headstones.

On the cemetery's west side, a Screen Wall memorial lists those whose graves could not be marked by headstones.

[3] This notes that the gates were built in 1857 to the designs of William Morphrew, for the Lewisham Burial Board.

The gates are made of wrought iron, the piers of stone; square, with set back, sloping tops culminating in saddleback gables.