While borrowing from the ideals established at Père Lachaise some years before, Kensal Green Cemetery contributed to the design and management basis for many cemetery projects throughout the British Empire of the time. In Australia, for example, the Necropolis at Rookwood (1868) and Waverley Cemetery (1877), both in Sydney, are noted for their use of the "gardenesque" landscape qualities and importantly self-sustaining management structures championed by the General Cemetery Company.
While borrowing from the ideals established at Père Lachaise some years before Kensal Green Cemetery contributed to the design and management basis for many cemetery projects throughout the British Empire of the time In Australia for example the Necropolis at Rookwood (1868) and Waverley Cemetery (1877) both in Sydney are noted for their use of the "gardenesque" landscape qualities and importantly self-sustaining management structures championed by the General Cemetery Company