Cemeteries of the Redlands This Brochure Describes the Interment and Memorialisation Facilities Available
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fold fold We are here to help you Redland City Council is committed to providing all the help and assistance you require when organising a burial or memorialisation. If you would like more information, please contact our helpful staff. Redland City Council Cemeteries PO Box 21 Cleveland QLD 4163 Phone: 07 3829 8570 Fax: 07 3829 8891 email: [email protected] Cemetery locations Cleveland Cemetery 53–71 Wellington Street, Cleveland Historical Dunwich cemetery (Entrance via Russell Street opposite swimming pool) Redland City Council has two mainland cemeteries Redland Bay Cemetery at Cleveland and Redland Bay. It also manages the 19–27 Gordon Road historical Dunwich cemetery on North Stradbroke Redland Bay Island. Grave sites may be reserved at all of the cemeteries. Columbarium wall niches and rock Dunwich Cemetery memorial places can also be purchased in perpetuity. Corner Yabby Street and East Coast Road North Stradbroke Island Cemeteries of the Redlands This brochure describes the interment and memorialisation facilities available. Council staff Redlands – a place of rest are always happy to answer any questions you may have, and will take into consideration special requests in keeping with the many cultures, customs and traditions of the people in the Redlands. 5536 PC 5536 Cemeteries of the Redlands.indd 1 14/3/08 12:42:26 PM fold fold Burials Memorialisation Lawn Individual rocks There is a lawn cemetery Individual rock settings are section in the Redland available at Cleveland, Redland Bay Cemetery. Bronze Bay and Dunwich cemeteries. memorial plaques can Cremated remains are buried be ordered through Redland City Council. under the rock position. It is Areas are created at also possible to plant bushes the head of each grave and personalise the area Columbarium Walls for memorial plaques around the rocks according and the remaining area to family wishes. The traditional Columbarium Wall niches for cremated of the grave is grassed and maintained by Council. remains are available at all three Council cemeteries. Redland Bay and Cleveland walls have double and Memorial rocks Monumental single niches. Dunwich walls have single niches only. These two large rock faces Standard headstone and in Cleveland Cemetery are Baby area grave surrounds can be located under the large An area within the central erected in these areas, central gum tree. Small garden of Cleveland along with above and individual plaques may Cemetery is kept especially below ground vaults. be affixed. Ashes may be to memorialise babies. Permits for erecting buried or scattered in the Ashes may be buried or monumental works are gardens or kept in the nearby scattered in the gardens required. Stonemasons underground vaults. or kept in the nearby should be familiar underground vaults. with the procedure for Benevolent Asylum obtaining a permit. Wall – Dunwich This unusual triangular Sandstone niche walls shaped wall, constructed This area is a red quartz from the bricks of the garden with sandstone niche old asylum wash house, walls for cremated remains. has been built and A number of niches are also Bronze memorial plaques maintained by Consolidated available at ground level in Rutile. Plaques in memory the garden. Bronze memorial plaques can be ordered through of former inmates and staff Redland City Council for lawn burials and all forms of the Benevolent Asylum of memorialisation. may be ordered through Redland City Council. 5536 Cemeteries of the Redlands.indd 2 14/3/08 12:42:33 PM.