[2] It has been closed to new burials since 2002[1] There are a number of notable people buried here, in a graveyard visually dominated by the imposing Rothschild Mausoleum.

[2] One section contains graves removed to this burial place from the former Hoxton burial ground of the Hambro Synagogue when that site underwent urban redevelopment.

[2][3] Nikolaus Pevsner notes the "dome of Eighteenth-century detail on attached Corinthian columns" and praises the ironwork and stone carving, calling it worthy of "the attention of the student of mid-Victorian detail.

"[4] In 2005 a number of monuments were destroyed and graves desecrated in what the police described as an attack by anti-Semitic vandals.

The doors of the mausoleum were pounded with heavy iron bars until they were bashed in, then they were torn from the building.