This page details the fees and charges for burials. Any other costs are at the registrar's discretion.
If you have any queries or need advice, please contact the Bury Cemetery Office.
Purchased graves, sale of burial rights fees
Grave space type:
- All cemeteries, all rows: Plot for burial (up to 3 burials) - Exclusive right of burial now includes the headstone permit fee, valid for 99 years: £1,300
- Plot for a single burial or green burial - Exclusive right of burial now includes the headstone permit fee, valid for 99 years: £1,547
- Purchase of grave without burial (interment) - Exclusive right of burial now includes the headstone permit fee, valid for 99 years: £1,444
- Bury Cemetery baby plot, up to and including 3 years - Exclusive right of burial valid for 99 years: £344
- Timber or brick vaults: at cost
- Pre-cast vaults: £1,232
- All cemeteries: Plot for burial of ashes - Exclusive right of burial valid for 99 years: £514
- All cemeteries: Plot for burial of ashes (non-resident) additional charge: £472
- Non-resident adult additional charge - Exclusive right of burial now includes the headstone permit fee, valid for 99 years: £967
Burial fees (interment fee)
Burial type:
- Single burial fee private graves: £973
- Single burial private graves (green burial): £973
- Adult burial fee public graves: £408
- Child burial fee private graves (under 18 years old or stillborn after 24 weeks): £320
- Child burial fee public graves (up to 24 weeks): £111
- Child burial fee public graves (under 18 years old or stillborn after 24 weeks): £187
- Burial of ashes: £401
- Scattering of ashes: £166
- Non-resident burial fee adult additional charge: £805
- Non-resident burial fee child additional charge: £320
- Non-resident burial of ashes additional charge: £237
Memorial charges
Memorial type:
- Placing of wooden cross: £90
- Marker headstone: £123
- Placing of side stones (1 foot to 2 foot): £133
- Placing of side stones (2 foot to 3 foot) - A charge will be made for side stones without a permit before replacement: £340
- Placing of side stones (over 3 foot): £649
- Replacement of side stones without a permit - A charge will be made for side stones without a permit before replacement: £330
- Placing of headstone and cross single (maximum 3 foot wide) - Charges include the checking of one inscription: £211
- Placing of headstone and cross double (maximum 6 foot wide) - Charges include the checking of one inscription: £422
- Placing of stone vase: £153
- Additional memorial inscriptions: £92
- Replacement memorials: £54
- Permit for memorial plaque for a bench or tree: at cost
- Tree planting (green burials only): at cost
- Concrete foundation: £76
- Concrete plinth: £136
Exclusive Grant of Right of Burial
- Grant of right of burial: £129
- Indemnity for lost grant of right of burial: £129
- Transfer - Transfer of exclusive right of burial will be issued upon receipt of a signed affidavit from a legal representative and a completed form at the Cemetery Office: £134
- Duplicate - Duplicate of exclusive right of burial will be issued upon receipt of a signed affidavit from a legal representative and a completed form at the Cemetery Office: £134
Other Fees
- Use of chapel for half an hour: £199
- Search fee - charged where the time for staff to action will exceed 30 minutes: £61
- Coffin size over the standard measurements 26” (additional charge): £211
- Late arriving funerals: £136
- Choosing a grave £78
Burials outside normal cemetery hours or at weekends
- Additional Bury resident burial fee for outside normal cemetery hours - Friday afternoon after 1pm: £171
- Additional non-resident burial fee for outside normal cemetery hours - Friday afternoon after 1pm: £342
- Additional Bury resident burial fee for outside normal cemetery hours – Saturday/Sunday & Bank Holidays: £457.50
- Additional non-resident burial fee for outside normal cemetery hours – Saturday/Sunday & Bank Holidays: £915
Support for child funeral costs (Children’s Funeral Fund for England)
The Children’s Funeral Fund for England can help to pay for some of the costs of a funeral for a child under 18 or a baby stillborn after the 24th week of pregnancy.
It is not means-tested: what you earn or how much you have in savings will not affect what you get.
The burial or cremation must take place in England.