Fees and charges (2026-27) : Bereavement Services

Fees and charges (2026-27) : Crematorium and Cemetery charges

Funeral services

Funeral Services prices
Package	2025/26	2026/27	VAT Status
Essential Rose package cremation only, no service or attendance	£1,350	£1,350	OS
Essential Plus Rose package cremation and 15 minute service in the chapel with attendance (includes music choices). Service times 08:30, 09:00, 16:00,16:30 - price excludes VAT	£2,145	£2,225	P
Premium Rose package cremation and 40 minute service in the chapel with attendance (includes music choices). Service times: 09:00, 10:00, 11:00, 12:00, 13:00, 14:00, 15:00 - price excludes VAT	£2,720	£2,825	P

Cremation charges

The fee includes an Environmental Charge of £65.

Cremation charges
Charge	2025/26	2026/27	VAT Status
Non-viable foetus or still born child	No charge	No charge
The body of a child of four years, but not exceeding twelve years at the time of death	No charge	No charge
For service times 09:00, 16:00 and 16:30 (15 minutes in chapel)	£905	£940	S
For service times 08:00, 09:00, and 16:00 (40 minutes in chapel)	£999	£1,035	S
For service times 09:00, 10:00, 11:00, 12:00, 13:00, 14:00, 15:00 (40 minutes in chapel)	£1,100	£1,140	S
Funeral Director, no attendance (arrangements required, not service) - delivery by agreement. Commercial operator rates available, please contact the Bereavement Services Manager.	£525	£525	OS

commercial operators: please contact the Bereavement Services Manager for available rates
Saturday and Sunday services charges on request
50% cancellation fee will apply to cremations cancelled within 48 hours of the service

Additional charges

Additional charges
Charge	2025/26	2026/27	VAT Status
Scattering of cremated remains from this Crematorium in the lawn area, with relatives and an officer in attendance	£110	£117	OS
Scattering of cremated remains from this Crematorium in the lawn area, no attendance	£79	£84	OS

Hire of cremation chapel
Hire of Cremation Chapel	2025/26	2026/27	VAT Status
For burial / memorial service	£220	£250	OS
Extension of half an hour for Cremation Service	£250	£250	OS
Hire of Cremation Chapel only	£330	£352	OS
Temporary retention of ashes, after first four weeks, per month	£36	£38	OS
Bio-degradable box urn	No charge	No charge
Additional certificate of cremation	£32	£34	OS
Pall bearers (each)	£41	£43	OS

Visual Tributes

Recordings and presentations
Recordings and presentations	2025/26	2026/27	VAT Status
Webcast	£84	£89	S
Downloadable recording MP4 Video File	£34	£34	S
Downloadable recording MP4 Video File (Including video tribute)	£51	£51	S
Recording DVD/USB	£71	£71	S
Recording DVD/USB (including video tribute)	£76	£76	S
Visual Tribute slide show up to 25 images (no music)	£42	£43	S
Visual Tribute slide for every 25 additional images (no music)	£30	£30	S
Visual Tribute slide show up to 25 images (with music)	£88	£88	S
Visual Tribute slide for every 25 additional images (with music)	£30	£30	S
Visual Tribute Family Video File (not part of slide show)	£32	£34	S
Visual Tribute Family Video File as part of slide show	£21	£21	S
Visual Tribute downloadable MP4 Video File	£26	£26	S
Visual Tribute DVD/USB	£34	£34	S
Urgent Service Request	£116	£116	S

Cemetery charges

Interment charges

Burial of persons resident within the Borough area at the time of death
Burial of persons resident within the Borough area at the time of death	2025/26	2026/27	VAT Status
The body of a child whose age at the time of death did not exceed twelve years	No charge	No charge
The body of a person whose age at the time of death exceeded twelve years	£1,131	£1,174	OS

Burial of persons who are not resident within the Borough
Burial of persons who are not resident within the Borough	2025/26	2026/27	VAT Status
The body of a stillborn child or child whose age at the time of death did not exceed one month	£175	£186	OS
The body of a child whose age at the time of death exceeded one month, but did not exceed twelve years	£228	£243	OS
The body of a person whose age at the time of death exceeded twelve years	£1,586	£1,693	OS

Additional Charges
Additional Charges	2025/26	2026/27	VAT Status
For burial at 3pm or after	£95	£150	OS

Interment of cremated remains
Interment of cremated remains (in a grave for which Exclusive Right of Burial has been granted)	2025/26	2026/27	VAT Status
The body of a child not exceeding four years of age at the time of death	£73	£76	OS
The body of a child of four years but not exceeding twelve years at the time of death	£85	£89	OS
The body of a person whose age at the time of death exceeded twelve years (resident)	£336	£349	OS
The body of a person whose age at the time of death exceeded twelve years (non-resident interred into new grave)	£564	£586	OS
The body of a person whose age at the time of death exceeded twelve years (non-resident interred into occupied grave)	£336	£359	OS
Double interment of cremated remains (resident)	£351	£365	OS
Double interment of cremated remains (non- resident interred into occupied grave)	£351	£450	OS

Purchase and Interment of cremated remains - Woodland area
Purchase and Interment of cremated remains - Woodland area (in a grave for which Exclusive Right of Burial has been granted)	2025/26	2026/27	VAT Status
Internment of single set of cremated remains (including plaque)	£347	£361	OS
Internment of double set of cremated remains (additional £100 for addition/change plaque)	£578	£600	OS

Exhumation Charges
Exhumation Charges	2025/26	2026/27	VAT Status
Exhumation of body of any age	£2,719	£2,823	EX/S
Exhumation of cremated remains	£378	£403	EX/S

Reinternment Charges
Reinternment Charges	2025/26	2026/27	VAT Status
Charges for each reinternment in accordance with normal fees

Purchase of Exclusive Right of Burial - 50 Years

temporary memorial free upon request for the first internment

Purchase by resident of the Borough
Purchase by resident of the Borough	2025/26	2026/27	VAT Status
Earthen grave 9'x4'	£1,035	£1,105	EX
Earthen grave 2'x2' (ashes)	£698	£745	EX
Earthen grave 4'x2' (Child up to age of four)	£216	£230	EX

Purchase by non-resident of the Borough
Purchase by non-resident of the Borough	2025/26	2026/27	VAT Status
Earthen grave 9'x4'	£1,736	£1,854	EX
Earthen grave 2'x2' (ashes)	£1,162	£1,241	EX
Earthen grave 4'x2' (Child up to age of four)	£221	£236	EX
Temporary memorial (including carriage)	£88	£93	S

Monuments and gravestones

Monuments and gravestones charges
Charge	2025/26	2026/27	VAT Status
From 1 April 2020 there will be an administration charge for the permission to erect a memorial on all plots in all cemeteries	£110	£117	S

on safety grounds, no memorial constructed of wood, glass, china or plastic material, except for the approved design for temporary memorials issued by the Council, shall be placed on any grave and all

Supplementary charges

Supplementary charges
Charge	2025/26	2026/27	VAT Status
Search Fee for Burial Registers (excluding genealogy enquiries) (per entry)	£58	£58	OS
Indemnity Form (where owner is unable to produce original purchase Deed)	£32	£34	OS
Fee for transfer of Deed of Exclusive Right	£58	£58	OS
Fee for transfer of Deed of Exclusive Right (Deed not available)	£89	£89	OS
Genealogy enquires per hour or part thereof	£61	£61	S
Administrative Fee (for preparation / production / amended / duplication of paperwork)	£32	£34	S

NB fee non-refundable, if after search grave is not located

Dedications

Memorial Benches (including provision of plaque)
Memorial Benches (including provision of plaque)	2025/26	2026/27	VAT Status
Ten Year dedication period	£1,617	£1,726	S
Additional plaque	£286	£305	S
Dedication Posy Vase	£90	£96	S
Return of memorial plaque	£13	£13	S

Garden Memorials (including provision of plaque)
Garden Memorials (including provision of plaque)	2025/26	2026/27	VAT Status
Memorial Rose with ten-year dedication period	£449	£479	S
Memorial tree with ten-year dedication period	£599	£639	S
Return of memorial plaque	£13	£13	S

Open Space Dedications
Open Space Dedications	2025/26	2026/27	VAT Status
Ten Year Dedication Plaque (no bench)	£291	£310	S
Dedication Posy Vase	£90	£96	S
Return of Dedication Plaque	£13	£13	S

Fees and charges (2026-27) : Memorial charges

Visual Tributes

Dedications
Book of Remembrance dedications	2025/26	2026/27	VAT Status
Two-line entry	£106	£106	S
Five-line entry	£149	£149	S
Eight-line entry	£210	£210	S
Five-line entry with flower illustration or similar	£231	£231	S
Five-line entry with heraldic device	£247	£247	S
Eight-line entry with flower illustration or similar	£247	£247	S
Eight-line entry with full heraldic device or crest	£409	£409	S

Memorial cards
Memorial cards	2025/26	2026/27	VAT Status
Two-line entry	£56	£56	S
Five-line entry	£74	£74	S
Eight-line entry	£95	£95	S
Five-line entry with flower illustration or similar	£184	£184	S
Five-line entry with heraldic device	£231	£231	S
Eight-line entry with flower illustration or similar	£215	£215	S
Eight-line entry with full heraldic device or crest	£252	£252	S

Memory books
Memory books	2025/26	2026/27	VAT Status
Two-line entry	£89	£89	S
Five-line entry	£105	£105	S
Eight-line entry	£126	£126	S
Five-line entry with flower illustration or similar	£210	£210	S
Five-line entry with heraldic device	£215	£215	S
Eight-line entry with flower illustration or similar	£226	£226	S
Eight-line entry with full heraldic device or crest	£262	£262	S

NB for each additional entry in Velum book - as in memorial cards above inclusive of postage and packing

Memorial Garden (including provision of Bronze Plaque Ten Year dedication period for plaque)
Memorial Garden (including provision of Bronze Plaque Ten Year dedication period for plaque)	2025/26	2026/27	VAT Status
Shrub	£342	£342	S
Standard ornamental (rose/other)	£396	£396	S
Double plaque (to replace single)	£105	£105	S
Embossed motif (from selection) on bronze plaque	£26	`£26	S
Postage and packing of expired memorial plaque	£13	£13	S

Memorial Garden (including provision of Bronze Plaque Five Year dedication period for plaque)
Memorial Garden (including provision of Bronze Plaque Five Year dedication period for plaque)	2025/26	2026/27	VAT Status
Shrub	£205	£205	S
Standard ornamental shrub	£237	£237	S
Double plaque (to replace single)	£105	£105	S
Embossed motif (from selection) on bronze plaque	£26	£26	S
Postage and packing of expired memorial plaque	£13	£13	S

Memorial Tree (including provision of Bronze Plaque) Ten Year dedication period.
Memorial Tree (including provision of Bronze Plaque) Ten Year dedication period.	2025/26	2026/27	VAT Status
Ten-year dedication period	£587	£626	S
Renewal - ten year dedication period	£343	£366	S

Individual Memorial Seat (including provision of Bronze Plaque) Ten Year dedication period.
Individual Memorial Seat (including provision of Bronze Plaque) Ten Year dedication period.	2025/26	2026/27	VAT Status
Six-foot seat	£1,592	£1,592	S
Additional bronze plaque	£264	£264	S
Renewal for ten-year dedication period	£720	£720	S

Individual Wall Plaques. Ten Year dedication period.
Individual Wall Plaques. Ten Year dedication period.	2025/26	2026/27	VAT Status
Bronze plaque - black with gold lettering	£210	£218	S
Renewal of existing plaque - ten-year dedication period	£152	£158	S
To add additional name or request new plaque to replace existing (new 4-line plaque)	£105	£109	S

Polished Sterling Grey Granite Memorial Vase Kerbs. Ten Year dedication period.
Polished Sterling Grey Granite Memorial Vase Kerbs. Ten Year dedication period.	2025/26	2026/27	VAT Status
Granite Memorial Vase Kerbs with 6-line inscription	£576	£598	S
Renewal - ten-year dedication period	£440	£457	S

Hexagonal Sandstone Tower with Granite Plaque. Ten Year dedication period.
Hexagonal Sandstone Tower with Granite Plaque. Ten Year dedication period.	2025/26	2026/27	VAT Status
Granite memorial plaque with 6-line inscription	£228	£243	S
Renewal of existing plaque for ten-year period	£158	£168	S

Sanctum 2000 above ground vaults.
Sanctum 2000 above ground vaults.	2025/26	2026/27	VAT Status
Twenty year lease of granite vault and black granite plaque and lettering (up to 80 letters) first interment and first posy vase Decorative motifs/floral tribute on plaque (samples and price on request)	£1,466	£1,522	S
Cameo photograph arranged and fixed to plaque (4cm x 3cm) (samples and price on request)	Price on request	Price on request	S
Cameo photograph arranged and fixed to plaque (7cm x 5cm) (samples and price on request)	Price on request	Price on request	S
Heart shaped cameo photo, arranged and fixed to plaque	Price on request	Price on request	S
Replacement of black granite plaque (excluding photograph) up to 80 letters (samples and price on request)	Price on request	Price on request	S
Additional letters (per letter)	£7	£7	S
Repainting of current plaque (dependent on characters and motifs)	Price on request	Price on request	S

Last modified on 17 March 2026