Cemetery fees

Cemetery fees for residents and non-residents of Brighton & Hove

Fees apply to all purchases of grave rights, interment and ashes interment.

Where a non-resident is to be buried a non-resident fee will apply regardless of the status of the grave owner.

Grants of exclusive right of burial

Grave or plot	Size	Fees for all cemeteries except Woodland Valley	Fees for Woodland Valley
Adult's grave - resident	7 feet by 3 feet	£913	£1,023
Adult’s grave - non-resident	7 feet by 3 feet	£2,490	£2,790
Child's grave (not available at all cemeteries) We make no charge to the family for this service and will claim fees from The Children's Funeral Fund, where applicable	4 feet 6 inches by 2 feet	no charge	not applicable
Adult's ashes plot - resident	not applicable	not applicable	£825
Adult's ashes plot - non-resident	not applicable	not applicable	£2,250
Child's ashes plot in specific locations (not available at all cemeteries)	not applicable	£450	not applicable

All graves are subject to availability.

The Purchase of the Grant of Exclusive Right of Burial is for a period of 50 years.

All Rights of Ownership can be purchased in advance if required.

Should a coffin be larger than the grave space requested, then an adjoining grave space may need to be purchased in order to accommodate the burial, and appropriate additional charges made.

The Exclusive Right of Burial can be extended for a further 25 years after the initial grant has expired. The fee for this service will be half of the purchase fee at the time of renewal.

Interment

This can only be arranged where the exclusive right of burial has been purchased

Interment of:	Fees
Adult, age 18 years and above Monday to Friday - resident	£1,162
Adult, age 18 years and above Monday to Friday - non-resident	£3,168
Where 2 persons are interred in a single grave space at the same time, including cremated remains, the second interment fee will be reduced by 50%
Foetal remains, a stillbirth or a child of 17 years and below - excluding Woodland Valley. We make no charge to the family for this service and will claim fees from The Children's Funeral Fund, where applicable	no charge
Hospital Authority / Public Health Act administered	£760
Additional fee for Saturday interments	£380
Additional fee for Sunday and bank holiday* interments	£570
Additional fee for coffins greater than 6 feet 6 inches x 2 feet 6 inches	£160
Organs and other body parts (no use of chapel)	£220

Interment fees include:

excavating the grave
supplying timbers
supplying lowering webbing and grass matting
filling and mounding the grave and leaving the grave tidy, with any floral tributes placed on the grave
topping up the grave during the first year
levelling and grass seeding after a year

Cemetery chapel fees

The term Cemetery Chapel refers to the Hove and Extra-Mural Chapels and they are only available on weekdays.

For use of Woodvale chapels see fees for cremations at Woodvale crematorium.

Service	Fees
Cemetery Chapel Fee (up to 60 minutes) prior to burial in one of our cemeteries (weekday)	£99
Cemetery Chapel Fee (up to 60 minutes) for memorial service or burial elsewhere (weekday)	£184

Ashes

Interment of:	Fees
Interment of ashes of an adult, age 18 years and above Monday to Friday	£220
Where two persons are interred in a single grave space at the same time, including cremated remains, the second interment fee will be reduced by 50%
Interment of ashes of a baby or child of 17 years and below Monday to Friday only	£110
Additional digging fee for every foot greater than 3 feet	£75
Additional fee for Saturday interments	£320
Additional fee for Sunday and bank holiday* interments	£480
Scattering ashes on a grave - Monday to Friday only	£120
Scattering ashes at Woodland Valley at Woodland Glade or SeaView - Monday to Friday only	£120
Additional fee for Saturday scattering	£285

All are subject to staff availability.

* except Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.

Where 2 persons are interred in a single grave space at the same time, including cremated remains, the second interment fee will be reduced by 50%.

Bio-degradable ashes containers

Suitable for burial at all cemeteries

Container	Fees
Wooden ashes casket with nameplate	£120
Double size wooden ashes casket with nameplate	£180
Bio-degradable NatureUrn® in oatmeal or green colour options	£60
Bio-degradable brown acorn urn	£60
Woodvale cardboard ashes casket (if not cremated at Woodvale)	£24

Cemetery fees for non-residents

The cemetery fees for residents of Brighton & Hove apply when the person:

to be interred was a resident at the time of death
acquiring the Grant of Exclusive Right of Burial is a resident

When neither of these applies, non-residents’ fees will apply.

Residential status

A resident is defined as:

any person who has, or at the time of death had, a permanent address within the boundary of Brighton & Hove City Council, or who had lived permanently within the city in the preceding 5 years
any person who at the time of death had a permanent address in the Parish of Peacehaven (subject to review)
in the case of a child, a parent who meets the above criteria
any person in the care of Brighton & Hove City Council, Adult Social Care

To qualify for resident status:

when purchasing grave rights, the purchaser needs to be a resident
when arranging a burial (including ashes burial), the deceased needs to have been a resident

Other cemetery charges

Service	Fees
Certified extract from the Register of Burials	£25 per extract
Woodland tree replacement (after the 1st year)	contact us for prices
Woodland nameplate	contact us for prices
Exhumation of remains (for each body)	contact us for prices
Transfer of registered ownership by probate from Will or Letters of Administration	£80
Transfer of registered ownership by Statutory Declaration	£135

Permit fee to erect a memorial on a grave

Memorial	Fee
Single headstone - up to 2 feet 6 inches	£160
Single headstone - over 2 feet 6 inches	£240
Tablet	£140
Tablet for Lawn Memorial Cemetery - 22 inches by 20 inches	£140
Kerbset including headstone - up to 7 feet by 3 feet	£290
Additional cover slab or chippings	£130
Additional inscription	£70
Vase with inscription	£70

Woodland Valley memorial

Memorial	Fee
Solid English Oak memorial plaque inclusive of up to three lines of engraved text	£496
Option to have one additional line of text	£32
Engraved image of existing offered templates	contact us for prices
Bespoke engraved image	contact us for prices

Other memorials are available, please contact us for prices.

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