Burials, memorials and cemeteries

Grave, interment and memorial fees

Rippleside, Chadwell Heath and Eastbrookend Cemeteries below fees and charges from 1 January 2024.

Prices include VAT where appropriate.

Grave fees

Exclusive right of burial:

  • A grade traditional (50 years): £4,739
  • B grade traditional (50 years): £4,175
  • Muslim - lawn mounded (50 years): £2,833
  • Lawn grave (50 years): £2,451
  • Children’s corner (50 years): £633
  • Ashes-only grave in garden of rest (25 years): £468
  • Ashes-only in an above-ground vault (25 years): £2,081

Interment fees

Non-Barking and Dagenham residents are charged double fees.

  • private grave: £1,395
  • non-private grave (excluding still-born): £1,395
  • additional charge per casket over 26″: £1,018
  • additional cost for depth over burial of 2: £209
  • additional fee for Saturday burial - morning (am) appointments only, 8am to 11am, direct to grave and subject to staff availability: £603
  • additional fee for Saturday, cremated remains - morning (am) appointments only, 8am to 11am, direct to grave and subject to staff availability: £328
  • child up to the age of 12 years in non-private grave in children’s corner - for 1 burial: £459
  • child up to the age of 12 years in children’s corner (depth for one only): £459
  • stillborn babies and children up to three weeks old: £277

Cremated remains fees

Non-Barking and Dagenham residents are charged double fees.

  • interment of child’s cremated remains in children’s corner: £277
  • interment of cremated remains in private grave: £277
  • interment of cremated remains in garden of rest: £277
  • placing of cremated remains in garden of rest and two-line inscription in book of remembrance (only): £277
  • each additional line in book of remembrance: £62
  • second interment of cremated remains in above-ground vault: £117
  • planter plaque (10 years) and scattering of cremated remains in surrounding shrub bed: £532

Memorial fees

  • right to place a memorial on a lawn or non-lawn type grave: £235
  • right to place a single or double memorial vase on any grave: £235
  • right to place a memorial book or plaque on non-lawn type grave: £235
  • right to add kerbs - landing: £235
  • adding inscription, levelling/straightening memorials, cleaning/restoration works: £88
  • removal of standard traditional memorial prior to interment and replace following interment: £209

Other charges

  • use of cemetery chapel: £142
  • transfer of exclusive right of burial: £53

Non-residents are charged double fees for interment