CEMETERIES FEES AND CHARGES 2023/2024 WITH EFFECT FROM 1 APRIL 2023:
New grave prices should be calculated by adding together the Exclusive Right of Burial Fee and the Interment Fee for the depth required. Charges are based on a coffin size 203cm (80ins) in length by 66cms (26ins) in width.
NB: All burial charges are trebled in price for non-Borough residents
Type of Charge | Price (£) |
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Additional charge for oversize coffin: | £105 |
Charge to Funeral Director for late arrival 30 minutes after booked time: | £165 |
Purchased Graves | |
Deed of Exclusive Right of Burial (Private Grave) | £885 |
Half Size Grave for cremated remains (Stone and Swanscombe only) | £595 |
Interment (Burial) to Depth up to 4ft 6ins (Single Depth) | |
Adults (17 years and over) | £575 |
Interment (Burial) to Depth up to 6ft 6ins (Double Depth) | |
Adults (17 years and over) | £725 |
Interment (Burial) to Depth up to 8ft 6ins (Triple Depth) Re-open only | |
Adults (17 years and over) | £990 |
Additional Charge when a Casket (bio-degradable only) is used instead of a coffin | |
Interments up to 4ft 6ins | £185 |
Interments up to 6ft 6ins | £325 |
Internment up to 8ft 6ins | £465 |
Burial of Cremated Remains | |
In bio degradable container | £220 |
Chapel Fees (including taped music or CD facilities) | |
Use of Chapel at the cemetery. | £185 |
Use of Chapel at the cemetery (non Borough Residents) | £370 |
Unpurchased Graves | |
Adults (17 years and over) | £575 |
Memorial and Inscriptions | |
Headstone Memorial including first inscription | £220 |
A full memorial ie: headstone and kerbs only including first inscription | £300 |
A tablet/plaque or vase with inscription | £145 |
* Each additional tablet/vase with inscription on existing memorial | £145 |
* Each additional inscription other than the first on existing memorial | £120 |
Each additional tablet, vase, or kerbs, on existing memorial (without inscription) | £120 |
Clean and repair to existing memorial (Permit required) | Free |
Applications for the replacement of old/worn memorials on a 'like' for 'like' basis (permit required) | Free |
Miscellaneous Fees | |
Disposal of excess floral tributes/wreaths | £210 |
Deed of Assignment | £60 |
Transfer of Deed | £60 |
Certified copy of entry in burial register | £26 |
* Top Soiling and seeding of grave (on request) |
£26 |
* Search Fee Per name (to be paid in advance) |
£26 |
* Hire of excavator excavation of graves other required than those programmed by the Council | At hire cost for time plus admin charge |
Removal of soil from around an excavated grave | At Cost |
Exhumation | On Application |
Watling Street Garden of Remembrance | |
Sanctum 2000 Columbaria (period 25 years inclusive of first interment and inscription up to 80 letters) | £1390 |
Second interment of cremated remains | £225 |
Additional inscribed plaque for second internment | £275 |
Additional inscribed letters - per letter | £2.75 |
Photo plaque | £210 |
Motif | £200 |
Renewal fee on expiry of lease for further 25 years | Current Fee at Time of Renewal |
Memorial pergola (10 year lease, cast bronze plaque up to 80 letters, scattering of cremated remains, floral tribute vase and holder) | £550 |
Additional cast bronze plaque | £220 |
Scattering of additional cremated remains on dedicated lawn area | £120 |
Renewal fee on expiry of lease for further 10 years | £320 |
Balmoral Memorial Bench (25 year lease, engraved cast bronze plaque up to 80 letters, scattering of cremated remains, floral tribute vase and holder | £1180 |
Additional cast bronze plaque | £150 |
Scattering of additional cremated remains on dedicated lawn area | £120 |
Renewal fee on expiry of lease for further 25 years | Current Fee at Time of Renewal |
*All fees are inclusive of VAT