Cemeteries Fees and Charges
With effect from the 1 April 2008, all Cemeteries under the control of this Council will operate the following scale of fees and charges.
| Cemeteries |
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Price |
| New Graves |
Purchase of Rights of Burial for 100 years |
£675.00 |
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Note: The fees indicated above apply only where the interment is in a new standard grave, i.e. for two adults. Any additional depth, subject to an overall maximum for 4 adults:- (per body) |
£115.00 |
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Interment Fees (including subsequent interments and public graves) |
Per adult |
£549.00 |
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Per Child from 5 years to 15 years inclusive |
£115.00 |
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Per Child under 5 years (including stillborn child, non-viable foetus, and body parts) |
£70.00 |
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Burial of Cremated Remains |
£120.00 |
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Strewing Fees |
Cremated Remains where the person was cremated at either (Pontefract or Wakefield Crematoria) |
£20.00 |
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Cremated Remains where the person was cremated elsewhere |
£40.00 |
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Exhumation
(The fees for exhumation include digging, ancillary items, and VAT) |
Per Adult |
£1,110.00 |
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Child from 5 years to 15 years |
£230.00 |
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Child under 5 years (including stillborn) |
£140.00 |
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Cremated Remains |
£240.00 |
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Rights to erect a Memorial |
Any Memorial as stated in regulations |
£130.00 |
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Vase with more than 3 words |
£130.00 |
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Additional Inscription |
Free |
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Miscellaneous
Items |
Searching the Burial Registers (per person) for 5 years of search |
£15.00 |
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Transfer or Surrender of the exclusive Right of Burial |
£30.00 |
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Cemetery Memorial |
Type of Cemetery Memorial |
Price
(inc VAT) |
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Available at Normanton Upper, Hemsworth, Altofts and Whitwood |
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Bronze plaque Original including inscription and 25 years lease |
£130.00 |
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Reserved space for a Bronze plaque |
£40.00 |
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Bronze plaque Replacement or Amendment - for remainder of lease period |
£130.00 |
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Ryhill Cemetery |
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Bronze plaque - old system |
£125.00 |
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Available at Altofts, Alverthorpe, Crigglestone, Featherstone, Ferrybridge, Hemsworth, Horbury, Knottingley, Normanton Upper, Outwood, Pontefract, Ryhill, Sharlston, Stanley, Snydale, Wakefield, and Whitwood Cemeteries |
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Granite plaque Original including inscription and 25 years lease |
£360.00 |
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Granite plaque Replacement or Amendment, (for remainder of lease period) |
£170.00 |
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Granite plaque Renewal of lease for a further 25 years |
£170.00 |
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Seats and Trees |
Seat including inscribed plaque |
£950.00 |
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Seat plaque only (Plastic with Bronze finish) |
£40.00 |
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Tree donation (without a plaque) |
£150.00 |
