 Rather than the usual forbidding high walls of contemporary cemetery design, William Hosking was briefed to work up a visually prominent design that would occupy a considerable frontage expanse.This provided open, inviting, views into the park, for appreciation of its botanical richness and landscape beauty since the Abney Park Cemetery project was, more so than any other of the ring of cemeteries at the time, designed as an early semi-public London park as well as a London burial ground.For buildings forming part of an English garden cemetery of the period, an unusual choice of architectural style was made at Abney Park