Crematorium
1. Cremation* Direct cremation (unattended service – dedicated time slot) £628 Price information for Cremation fee £775* cemeteries and Extended cremation service – additional charge £147* Use of chapel only (including organ and Obitus music system) £147 crematorium £330* Service exceeds allotted time, additional charge .00* Fees include: up to 30 minutes** in chapel (extended service up to 60 minutes** in chapel), all services after the coffin is placed on the ▪ Sandwell Registration Services ▪ catafalque, Medical Referee’s fee £19, mercury abatement surcharge £50, Obitus music system and disposal of cremated remains in the Garden of Remembrance or Certificate of Cremation, if required.
* For weekend and Bank Holiday cremations, a 15% fee will be added. ** in standard operating conditions 2. Additional media and music 2. AdditionalAudio recording media of andservice music £37 Audio& Visual recording of service (memory stick/USB) £44 Live webcast £44 Live webcast plus visual recording of service £83 Visual Tribute single photograph £20 Visual Tribute up to 50 photographs only £75 Additional photographs per 50 £75
3. Urns and containers Purchase of a wooden casket £76 Scattering of cremated remains of person cremated £44 elsewhere Biodegradable Urn £87
4. Coffin bearer A council employee acting as a coffin bearer £45
Sandwell Valley Crematorium Newton Road, West Bromwich, West Midlands, B71 3SX 0121 569 6700 www.sandwell.gov.uk/bereavement 1st April 2021
Cemeteries 2c. Traditional graves 5’centre and Muslim graves Traditional grave purchase for 1 burial £2,401 1. Interment fee in respect of all graves is: Traditional grave purchase for 2 burials £2,494 Traditional grave purchase for 3 burials £2,586 Interment fee £1,065* Muslim earthen grave purchase £2,401 Cremated remains plot type interment fee £330* Muslim section vault grave additional charge £723 Baby Section interment fee £330 (Thimblemill & Fallings Heath cemetery only) Scattering of cremated remains on a full grave £44 Late arrival fee additional charge £317 3. Additional inscriptions Additional inscription permit fee. Use of chapel only (including organ and Obitus music system) £147 £87 (interments prior to1/1/2013) 2. Exclusive Right of Burial For the exclusive right of burial for a period of 99 years, with the 4. Other charges option to renew on the terms then prevailing. Transfer of grave deeds £51 Purchase of a temporary grave marker £28 2a. Baby Graves Purchase of a grave on a Baby Section – for a 99 year period (Heath Lane, Rowley Regis, Thimblemill, Fallings £230* Charges for out of borough burials and burial/scattering of Heath & Tipton cemeteries) Max. coffin size 25” x 19” cremated remains will incur an additional charge of 15% on both the burial fee and Exclusive Rights of Burial: 2b. Lawn type and cremated remains plot for a 99 year period Definition of out of borough:
Lawn type grave purchase for 1 burial £1,988 a. The person to be buried is not a resident of the Borough of Lawn type grave purchase for 2 burials £2,064 Sandwell at the time of death unless the grave was purchased Lawn type grave purchase for 3 burials £2,139 before 1 April 1990. Cremated remains plot £1,333 b. In the case of a stillborn child when neither parent is a resident at the time of stillbirth.
Note: The fees in part 1 include the digging of the grave. However, the c. If a Sandwell resident had been moved out of the borough into costs of construction of walled graves and vaults, the removal and a care/nursing home please call us on 0121 569 6707 replacement of memorials and the like shall be at the expense of the holder of the exclusive right of burial/applicant. *This includes the memorial permit fee giving the right to erect a Charges for burials booked for out of hours will incur an memorial and/or to arrange a new/additional inscription. additional charge of 15% on the burial fee and chapel fee, if required: Definition of out of hours:
If the burial is booked for a: • Saturday, Sunday or Bank Holiday • or 3:15pm or later from October to March (Monday to Friday) • or 4pm or later from April to September (Monday to Friday)