Bereavement Service price information

From 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025

You can pay by debit card.

Please note that no charge will be made for a normal burial of children from 24 week gestation up to the age of 17 years as Bradford Council will reclaim the charges from the Government's Children's Funeral Fund.

Exclusive Rights of Burial charges are applicable for children under 24 weeks' gestation.

Options vary at each cemetery. Please check with Bereavement Services.

** All prices are inclusive of VAT where applicable.

Cemeteries

Grants of Right

Burial Grant for 100 years	Fees for residents
Single grave space Class 1 (pathside)	£1633
Single grave space Class 2 (others)	£1414
Half grave space (for coffins under 3ft in length) Class 1 (pathside) not available for purchase of cremated remains	£859
Half grave space (for coffins under 3ft in length) Class 2 (other) not available for purchase of cremated remains	£644
Cremated remains plots (for burial of ashes) for up to 2 sets only	£724
Cremated remains plots (for burial of ashes) 4 sets only. Not available in all cemeteries	£982

Memorial Grants of Right

Item	Fees
Memorials Right (maximum period 100 years) for the right to erect or place upon a grave for which exclusive right for burial has been acquired a grave stone or other memorial.	£195
Additional tablet for existing memorial or Head Border Kerb set	£98
Full Kerb Set (material must be same as existing headstone)	£195
Cover Slab (material must be same as existing headstone)	£195
Permit charge for a re-inscription of a grave stone or other memorial	£73

Interments

Fees for residents	Fee
Interment in stillborn and young infant (up to age of one month) communal grave for which Exclusive Rights of burial have not been granted.	£99
Interment in stillborn and young infant communal grave for which Exclusive Rights of burial have not been granted (Hospital Contract)	£99
Half grave space excavating up to 4ft 6” deep (for coffin under 3ft in length). Resident only	£459
Excavating up to 4ft 6” deep (grave for one)	£1098
Excavating up to 6ft 0” deep (grave for two)	£1224
Excavating up to 7ft 6” deep (grave for three) *	£1333
Excavating up to 9ft 0” deep (grave for four) *	£1444
Reopen brick grave or vault	£1034
Cremated Remains interment	£258
Cremated Remains Interment Saturday (burials only by arrangement with the Bereavement Services Manager. If sufficient members of staff are available to provide the service.) Latest burial time, if accepted, is 11am	Price on application
Woodland Burial (Thornton Cemetery only)	£2118

* It is not possible to excavate to these depths in all cemetery sections because of ground conditions. In some cemeteries graves will only be sold for opening to maximum 6ft (grave for two) only

Saturday burials

Saturday burials only by arrangement with the Bereavement Services Manager, if sufficient members of staff are available to provide the service. Double charges apply to all interments on Saturday.

Additional charges

Additional charges for walling earth grave to surface for which exclusive right of burial have been granted. This charge must be made in conjunction with the interment fee.

Item	Fees
Walling of earth grave to surface up to 6ft 0” deep	£2273
Walling of earth grave to surface up to 9ft 0” deep (maximum)	£3068

A burial will be accepted at short notice if all the documentation is produced with immediate effect and if it is possible to facilitate the request, bearing in mind the existing workload. The additional charge for short notice is 50% of interment charge. This fee will apply to

• less than 72 hours' notice for a lined grave
• less than 48 hours' notice for an earth grave
• less than 24 hours' notice for a cremated remains grave.

Memorials

Funeral Directors should arrange for a Monumental Mason to undertake all work on memorials, Headstones, Border Stones removal only (excluding liability).

Use of chapel

Item	Fees
Use of crematorium chapels for a burial or memorial service Scholemoor, Nab Wood and Oakworth (Monday to Friday) including entering and exiting of chapel	£228

Miscellaneous

Item	Fees
Exhumations	Price on application
Administration fee to process late Interment paperwork (forms that are received after 10am 2 clear working days before the proposed interment)	£55
Late cancellation of burial service (less than 2 clear working days before the proposed funeral) ***	50% of interment fee
Burial certificate	£53
Genealogical Search (where date of death not known and before 2002) per person, per day	£118 **
Genealogical Search (where date of death known 2002 onwards) per person	£10 **
Memorial seat	Price on application**

Out of district

1. An additional 50% of the interment fee will be charged if the person to be interred has not been previously been a resident of the Bradford District.
2. An additional 50% of the Exclusive Right fee will be charged for a new grave unless the deceased has been a resident of the Bradford District.
3. If within 2 years the owner of the Exclusive right requests a transfer of ownership to someone living outside the District, the additional charge will be payable in addition to the fee for endorsement of the transfer.

Note: The facilities shown are not available at all cemeteries and crematoria.

Where the headstone exceeds the maximum permitted height, breadth or width, the fee for the grant of rights will be double the list price.

VAT will be charged on all exhumations.

After cremation memorials

Book of Remembrance

Item	Fees
Badges, Crests, Coat of Arms	£203**
Two Line Inscription	£117**
Five Line Inscription	£164**
Eight Line Inscription	£203**
Miniature Book	£132**
Memorial Card	£65**

Kerb plaques, Cremated Remains Memorial Vaults, Sanctum 2000

Item	Fees
Black Granite Desktop Kerb (10 year lease)	£472**
Black Granite Desktop Kerb Renewal (10 year lease)	£237
Pedestal Plaque Scholemoor / Nab Wood / Oakworth (10 year lease)	£76
Pedestal Plaque renewal (10 year lease)	£38
Granite Wall plaque Snowdrop Garden baby and young infant area (10 year lease)	£181**
Granite wall plaque renewal Snowdrop Garden baby and young infant area (10 year lease)	£90
Granite Wall Plaque - Garden of Rest (Scholemoor Only) (10 year lease)	£346
Granite Wall Plaque Renewal - Garden of Rest (Scholemoor Only) (10 year lease)	£173
Granite Kerb Plaque (Nab Wood and Oakworth only) (10 year lease)	£346
Granite Kerb Plaque Renewal (Nab Wood and Oakworth only) (10 year lease)	£173
Black Granite Wall Plaque (Queensbury only) (10 year lease)	£442 to £668**
Black Granite Wall Plaque Renewal (Queensbury only) (10 year lease)	£220
Black Granite Memorial Tower Plaque (10 year lease)	£372**
Black Granite Memorial Tower Plaque Renewal (10 year lease)	£186
Sanctum 2000 memorial vault / Cremated remains memorial vault (25 year lease) including plaque with 80 letter inscription and first interment	£982
Second placement of Cremated Remains in Sanctum 2000 or Cremated Remains memorial vault with additional inscription of 80 letters (room on tablet permitting)	£227
Replacement plaque for Sanctum 2000 or Cremated Remains Memorial Vault with 80 letters	Price on application
Photo plaque (for cremated remains memorial vault)	£145
Additional Lettering over and above 80 letter inscription (per letter, maximum of 243 letters)	£8
Wooden Cremated Remains Casket	Price on application**
Cremated remains memorial vault 25 year renewal lease (only available when original lease has expired)	£504
Placing of cremated remains in existing Niche at Scholemoor Crematorium	£227

Crematoria prices

• Crematoria price information