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Bereavement Services - fees and charges

Charges effective from 1 April 2008

Sale of Burial Rights
Burial cost in £
All Cemeteries All Rows - Plot for burial (up to 4 burials) 450
Plot for Single Burial 750
Plot for Single Burial - Green Burial (Note 2) 750
Bury Cemetery Baby Plot (up to and including 3 years) 220
All Cemeteries - Plot for Interment of Ashes 225
Non-Resident Additional Charge Adult 500
Construction of vault (wood or brick) at cost


Burial Fees (Interment Fee)
Interment cost in £
Private Graves Single (Max 9 ft) 525
Private Graves Single - Green Burial 525
Private Graves Child (up to and including 8 years) 200
Public Graves Adult 260
Public Graves Child (over 1 month to 8 years) 130
Public Graves Child (up to and including 1 month) 77.25
Ashes Interred 195
Ashes Scattered 75
Coffin/grave over standard measurements (additional charge) 115
Funerals arriving late 85
Non-Resident Additional Charge Adult 465
Non-Resident Additional Charge Child 210
Non-Resident Additional Charge Burial of Ashes 150


Memorial Charges
Memorial cost in £
Marker Headstone 75
Marker Stone - Green Burials 75
Replacement of Side-stones (after reopening) plus plastic fences and gardened graves 215
Placing of sidestones max 1sq metre 180
Placing of Headstone and Cross Single (Max 3') (Note 6) 130
Placing of Headstone and Cross Double (Max 6' wide) (Note 6) 260
Placing of Stone Vase 90
Additional Memorial Inscriptions 55
Removing Headstones at cost
Memorial tree 130
Memorial plaque for bench or tree 130
Planting of Tree - Green Burials only (Note 3) at cost
Vaults – wooden at cost
Vaults – brick at cost
Vaults – pre-cast 875
Grant of Right of Burial

65

Indemnity for Lost Grant of Right of Burial 70
Use of Chapel 115
Search Fee (Note 1) 40
Gardening of Graves (Note 4) 105
Concrete Foundation 70
Transfer of exclusive right of burial (Note 5) 90
Duplicate of exclusive right of burial (Note 5) 90
Meeting with family to select a specific grave plot 40
Burials outside normal cemetery hours or at weekends at cost


NOTES: Cemetery Charges
  1. Fee charged for genealogical (family tree) and other enquiries where staff time in answering the enquiry exceeds 30 minutes.
  2. Sites available on the perimeter of Radcliffe Cemetery between the roadway and railing. No stones or other memorials permitted apart from a marker stone.
  3. The tree to be at cost from a £1 seedling to a £35 standard. No charge for planting.
  4. Transfer or duplicate exclusive rights of burial will only be issued on receipt of a signed affidavit from a legal representative and a completed form at the cemetery office.
  5. Includes checking of one inscription only.
  6. Placing of kerbstone exceeding 1 sq metre will incur additional charges.