It has a funeral chapel, public toilets and a small amount of car parking.
It was awarded plaques as a category winner of 'Cemetery of the Year' in 1999 and 2001.
Along with the other Oxford public cemeteries it was expected to be full before 2021.
[1] The cemetery has a number of sections for individual religions or ethnicities, including Baháʼí, Muslim, Jewish (first section dedicated 1894; extension 2000), Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Serbian Orthodox, Polish Roman Catholic, other Roman Catholic (the section in which the Tolkiens are buried) and Quakers.
Many notable people are buried in Wolvercote Cemetery, including many former academics of the University of Oxford.