Cemetery Charges
Cemetery charges
| Detail | Charge* |
|---|
| Walled graves and vaults |
To be set at time of burial |
| Purchase of grave space: |
| - Adult |
£1,000 |
| - Child under 12 years |
no fee |
| - Child in Children’s Cemetery Area |
no fee |
| Purchase of cremation grave/ashes plot |
£285.00 |
| Use of Chapel |
£250.00 |
| Garden of Remembrance - right to erect a tablet |
£135.00 |
| Search in burial register (to be charged when time involved exceeds 1 hr) |
£85.00 |
| Right to erect a memorial not exceeding 1.06 metres in height, 0.76 metres in width and 0.45 metres in depth |
£270.00 |
| Vase not exceeding 0.30 metres in height or tablet not exceeding 0.25 metres (including a tablet for a stillborn child) with only the name or initials, date of death and age of person inscribed |
£120.00 |
| Right to place on any flagstone, headstone, kerbstone, border stone, inscribed vase, tablet or monument, each further inscription |
£110.00 |
| Replacement of a headstone with a new headstone |
£65.00 |
| Right to place kerb - depending upon location within cemetery |
£600.00 |
| Interment of cremated remains in any grave |
£285.00 |
| Interment of ashes (excluding caskets or urns) |
£285.00 |
| Interment of a stillborn child or child under 6 months |
£85.00 |
| Interment of a child exceeding 6 months but under 12 years |
£360.00 |
| Interment of an adult or child exceeding 12 years: |
| - Single depth - new grave |
£1200.00 |
| - Single depth - re-open |
£920.00 |
| Interment of an adult or child exceeding 12 years: |
| - Double depth - new grave |
£1,475.00 |
| - Double depth - re-open |
£1,175.00 |
| Interment of an adult or child exceeding 12 years: triple depth |
£1,750.00 |
| One off contribution for maintenance for coffin burials |
£550.00 |
| One off contribution for maintenance for cremated remains |
£250.00 |
| Transfer of Exclusive Right of Burial (ERB) fee |
£103.00 |
| Admin fee for burials with ashes |
£75.00 |
| Commemorative plaque |
£350.00 |
| Grave assignment |
£80 |
* Charges for Non-Residents
The above interment charges apply where the person to be interred is, or immediately before death was a resident in the Dover district council area, or in the case of a stillborn child, where the parents (or one of them) are residents of the District. In all other cases with the exception of burials in previously purchased graves, the charges will be doubled.
Contact the Burials team
Telephone No. 01304 872458
Email: burials@dover.gov.uk