Boundary wall of former graveyard forming the perimeter of Old Paradise Gardens, including attached gravestones and chest tombs

This is a graveyard boundary wall, likely originally laid out in the 18th century but largely rebuilt around 1815, with some 20th-century alterations or additions of lesser interest. The wall forms the perimeter of Old Paradise Gardens, incorporating 18th and 19th-century gravestones and chest tombs attached to its interior.

The wall encloses a broadly L-shaped area. The earliest section begins at the north, running south from Old Paradise Street. The first 4.4 metres is a later 20th-century addition of lesser interest, joining an early 19th-century wall that continues south. This length of wall is 23 courses high above ground level, battered from the midsection down and topped by a rowlock course. Gravestones and chest tombs dating to the 18th and 19th centuries are mortared onto the inside edge. The wall proceeds east behind Gabriel House, continuing as a similar early 19th-century construction, except for a 13.6-metre section at the east end, which is constructed of 20th-century glazed brick and is of lesser interest. At the north-east corner, an approximate 10-metre gap interrupts the original line of the wall with lower courses running south, abutting a separate 20th-century rendered brick wall that is not included in this listing.

Approximately 38 metres from the north-east corner, the boundary wall rises to full height with a stone coping. It continues south before meeting a lower wall topped with iron railings at the south-east corner, forming an entrance flanked by brick piers with concrete caps. The south length varies in height, still with gravestones mortared onto the inside, and reduces in level where it meets the west length behind Whitgift House. The west length runs northwards, varying in height and incorporating later phases, including a relieving arch, probably for a former opening now blocked; an entrance flanked by brick piers; and an external blind arcade of four arches and buttresses near the north end. Adjoining the north end is a 7.3-metre length of probable late 20th-century construction, heading west towards Lambeth High Street and of lesser interest. A section of rendered brick wall abutting the lower courses on the northeast corner is excluded from the listing due to lacking special architectural or historic interest.