Its entrance is in Osney Lane, which runs off the south end of Mill Street, south of Botley Road and near the site of Osney Abbey.
In 1855, new burials were forbidden at all Oxford city churches, apart from in existing vaults.
The burials in Osney Cemetery are recorded in the parish register for each of these churches just as if they had taken place in its actual churchyard.
Christ Church was still an extra-parochial non-royal peculiar (exempt from the jurisdiction of the diocese) when Osney Cemetery opened, but by 1901 it had been given space in the St Thomas's section of Osney Cemetery called "Christ Church portion”.
The entrance to Osney Cemetery has a lych gate.