However by the 1900s it was almost full, and the Magdalen Hill Cemetery, to the east of the city, opened in 1914 as a replacement.

The grade II listed perimeter wall, which fronts onto St James' Lane and Sparkford Road, includes red brick piers with stone caps and wrought iron railings and gates.

The cemetery formerly had two chapels, one for the Church of England and the second for other denominations, together with a gate lodge.

[3][4] The cemetery contains the grave of Charles Freeman, a circus entertainer and bare-knuckle boxer known as the "American Giant", who died of tuberculosis in Winchester in 1845.

c. viii), the cemetery has been managed by Winchester City Council since 1958, and is now closed for burials.