Cemeteries fees and charges
Fees and charges for Cemeteries services, 2025 to 2026.
There is a cost to burials at our cemeteries, and for services at our 2 chapels, as well as for headstones and other monuments.
If you have a cremation at Mansfield and District Crematorium there is a separate cost to this, as well as any services you may have from a funeral director.
Burial costs
| Service | Net | VAT | Total 2025 / 2026 |
VAT rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Still born child up to 1 month | Free | |||
| Child grave 1 month to 16 years (Children's section only) | Free | |||
| Cremated remains | £269.00 | £0.00 | £269.00 | NB |
| Scattering of ashes | £108.00 | £0.00 | £108.00 | E |
| Adult depth for one | £981.00 | £0.00 | £981.00 | NB |
| Adult depth for two | £942.00 | £0.00 | £942.00 | NB |
| Adult depth for three | £1075.00 | £0.00 | £1075.00 | NB |
Burial or interment of remains for stillborns, non-viable foetus or children from birth to under 16 is free of charge, within the children's section only.
Triple adult grave (only available at Kingsway New Cemetery).
Where interment is for a non-Ashfield resident the cost is doubled.
Purchase of exclusive right of burial fees
You can buy exclusive rights of burial for a plot in our cemeteries. The rights last for 75 years and cost:
| Service | Net | VAT | Total 2025 / 2026 |
VAT rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adult grave | £1210.00 | £0.00 | £1210.00 | E |
| Child's grave (Children's section only) | Free | |||
| Cremated Remains Area | £672.00 | £0.00 | £672.00 | E |
| Transfer of rights of burial where plot is not being re-opened or memorial installed | £33.00 | TBC | TBC | TBC |
Miscellaneous cemetery fees
| Service | Net | VAT | Total 2025 / 2026 |
VAT rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Use of Chapel | £269.00 | £0.00 | £269.00 | E |
| Late arrival on site (after first 30 minutes) | £135.00 | £0.00 | £135.00 | E |
| Transfer of exclusive rights of burial without internment | £36.00 | £0.00 | £36.00 | E |
| Family tree and genealogy searches per name / per grave | £36.00 | £0.00 | £36.00 | E |
| Late arrival of paperwork (after first 30 minutes) | £36.00 | £0.00 | £36.00 | E |
We must received paperwork by 10 am no more than 2 days before interment
Memorial charges - Permit fee
| Service | Net | VAT | Total 2025 / 2026 |
VAT rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Headstone (Not exceeding 3ft x 2ft 6 inches) | £311.00 | £0.00 | £311.00 | NB |
| 8 inch x 8 inch vase / tablet | £190.00 | £0.00 | £190.00 | NB |
| Vase over 8 inches | £234.00 | £0.00 | £234.00 | NB |
| Additional inscription | £121.00 | £0.00 | £121.00 | NB |
| Memorial tree | £206.00 | £0.00 | £206.00 | NB |
VAT key
- SR = Standard Rated
- E = Exempt
- NB = Non Business / Outside Scope
- Z = Zero Rated