Great Wakering Parish Council

Burial Fees - 1st April 2010

The fees, payments and sums set out below only apply where the deceased has been an inhabitant or parishioner of the district of Great Wakering Parish Council for a minimum period of 2 years before their death or within a period of 5 years prior to their death, or, in the case of a stillborn child, where the parents (or one of them) are, or at the time of death were, such inhabitants or parishioners. In all other cases, the fees, payments and sums will be trebled.

Part 1. INTERMENTS

The fees indicated for the various headings of items 1, 2 and 3, do not include the digging of the grave.

1. For the interment, in a grave in respect of which an exclusive right of burial has not been granted:
  • (i) Of the body of a stillborn child or of a child whose age at the time of death did not exceed 10 years £NIL
  • (ii) Of the body of a person whose age at the time of death exceeded 10 years £230
2. For the interment, in a grave in respect of which an exclusive right of burial has been granted:
  • (i) Of the body of a stillborn child or of a child whose age at the time of death did not exceed 10 years £NIL
  • (ii) Of the body of a person whose age at the time of death exceeded 10 years £230
3. For the interment of cremated remains in a grave:
  • (i) Of the body of a stillborn child or of a child whose age at the time of death did not exceed 10 years £NIL
  • (ii) Of the body of a person whose age at the time of death exceeded 10 years £150

The fees, payments and sums set out below for Parts 2 & 3 only apply where the purchaser has been an inhabitant or parishioner of the district of Great Wakering Parish Council for a minimum period of 2 years before the death or within a period of 5 years prior to their death, or, in the case of a stillborn child, where the parents (or one of them) are, or at the time of death were, such inhabitants or parishioners. In all other cases, the fees, payments and sums will be trebled.

Part 2. EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS OF BURIAL IN EARTHEN WARD GRAVES

  • 1. For the exclusive right of burial for a period of 50 years in an earthen grave 9 feet by 4 feet £300
  • 2. For the exclusive right of burial of cremated remains in an earthen grave 4 feet by 2 feet for a period of 50 years £170

Part 3. GRAVESTONES AND MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS

For the right to erect on or place on a grave in respect of which the exclusive right of burial has been granted:

  • A Headstone or Ashes Tablet £120
  • The fee indicated for this Part includes the first inscription.
  • For each inscription after the first, a fee of £60 is payable.
  • For each Ashes Tablet after the first, a fee of £60 is payable.

Burial Ground

Great Wakering Parish Lawn-Burial Ground is situated behind St. Nicholas Churchyard Great Wakering. The layout was largely inspired by the work of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Each grave is laid in an avenue of level grass and may, if required be marked at the head by a memorial comprising of a headstone (made of white natural stone) set on base. Applications to acquire rights of burial or erect a headstone should be made to the Parish Council Office. The layout was largely inspired by the work of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Carved LimestoneRecent excavations in advance of a churchyard extension at Great Wakering revealed dramatic evidence of the importance of this location in the later Saxon period in the form of this elaborately carved fragment of limestone.