Fees and charges for cemeteries

Memorial and miscellaneous charges

MEMORIAL FEES  

Memorial Permits – Purchased Graves  

All classes  

Lawn section - headstone  

 £303.00 

Traditional section – headstone and/or kerb set  

 £303.00 

Child Memorial Fee – Lawn section (Hatton Cemetery child section only) 

£150.00 

Concrete surround (permit only) 

£94.00 

Removal and Replacement of Lawn memorial (this service is not currently available)  

£258.00 

Removal and Replacement of Traditional memorial  

 £511.00 

Provision and installation of wooden surround 

 £809.00 

Additional Inscription  

 £80.00 

Additional works/refurbishment’s  

 £80.00 

Tablet  

£75.00 

Vases  

 £38.00 

Vases – Unpurchased Graves  

 £38.00 

*erection of memorial on double or treble grave space – fees double or trebled as appropriate  

MISCELLANEOUS CHARGES 

Late payment fee chargeable to funeral directors (fees due by date of burial) 

 £32.00 

Scattering of Cremated Remains – on a purchased grave where registration is required  

 £117.00 

Transfer of Burial Rights  

 £209.00 

Assignment/Additional Owner of Exclusive Right of Burial 

 £107.00 

Hire of cemetery chapel – single service lasting 45 minutes 

 £145.00 

Skips for removal of excess soil – each skip used 

 £519.00 

Duplicate Grave Deed 

£27.00  

Family Trace (not computerised records) 

 £27.00 

Admin fee for refund (refund for returning Exclusive Right of Burial for unused burial plot) 

 £27.00 

*Refund of the original purchase payments, less the years of ownership. Admin fee applies.  

Overtime rates (out of normal hours burials)  

*Overtime fee for Interments requested from 3.00pm (also chargeable for late arrivals) 

£475.00 

Additional fees for Interments on Saturday – full interment  

£475.00 

Additional fees for Interments on Saturday – Cremated Remains  

 £238.00 

Additional fee for Interments on Sunday/Bank Holiday – full interment  

 £594.00 

Additional fee for Interments on Sunday/Bank Holiday – Cremated Remains  

 £297.00 

Burial Cancellation Fee (chargeable when less than 71 hours’ notice is given) 

Full digging fee 

*Overtime rate applies to burials commencing on or after 3pm  any day (inc. late arrivals).  If on a weekend or Bank Holiday, this will be in addition to the weekend surcharge. 

Exhumation of Cremated Remains - Adult 

 £411.00 

Exhumation of Cremated Remains – Child not exceeding 17 years 

 £212.00 

Exhumation of a Child (coffin burial) 

£974.00 

Exhumation*  

£3,924.00 

*this fee includes the removal of the first and/or second coffin together with special fee paid to each member of staff involved  

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