Oakham cemetery services

These charges apply through the 2024-25 financial year.

Burial Fees

Any person in permanent residence within Rutland at the time of death may be buried in Oakham cemetery at the basic rate determined in the authority’s fees and charges applicable at the time.

Any person not in permanent residence within the county at the time of death may be buried in Oakham cemetery at the basic fees determined in the authority’s fees and charges multiplied by 2, this is the non-resident fee.

This non-resident fee will apply where a grave is being opened for the first time and the deceased was not resident in Rutland and did not meet any of the exemption requirements from that fee (Note: burial includes cremated remains).

Exemptions are:

• where the deceased was previously a resident of Rutland and has been in residential care outside the County (whether in institutional care or to be cared for by relatives) for a period not exceeding 5 years
• the deceased died whilst away from home serving with HM Armed Forces

Note: 'Existing grave' means a grave currently containing a coffin or cremated remains. It does not refer to a reserved grave space.

Exclusive right of burial

To purchase the exclusive right of burial at the basic rate determined in the authority’s fees and charges applicable at the time the purchaser must be in permanent residence within the County or the nearest surviving relative of the deceased and the deceased was in permanent residence within Rutland.

Any person not in permanent residence within the county may purchase an exclusive right of burial in Oakham cemetery at the basic fees determined in the authority’s fees and charges multiplied by 2, this is the non-resident fee.

Note: Details of the person for whom an exclusive right of burial is being purchased in advance will be required and residency checks may be carried out.

Interment charges

In this section, the term 'interment fee' shall include an amount for the preparation of the grave and an administrative charge.

For the interment:

• of the body of a stillborn child or of the body of a child under the age of eighteen years – no charge
• of the body of a person whose age at death exceeded seventeen years – £1,163.00
• additional charge for interment at a depth exceeding five feet £168.00
• of the interment of cremated remains £405.00

Exclusive rights of burial In earthen graves

For the purpose of these provisions, the term 'child' shall mean a person under the age of eighteen years.

• child's grave £172.00
• single grave up to five feet in depth £2,688.00

Fees and other charges for monuments, gravestones and monumental inscriptions

All charges set out below include the cost levied by the council in respect of the first inscription.

• a headstone not exceeding three feet in height: on a single grave space £346.00, on a double grave space £480.00
• a headstone not exceeding three feet in height with kerbstones or border stones on a single grave space £692.00, on a double grave space £960.00
• a flat stone: on a single grave space £346.00, on a double grave space £480.00
• tablet on any grave, gardens of remembrance or in the chapel (to include vase in the gardens of remembrance): £94.00
• any other monument not exceeding two feet in height on a single grave space £131.00 exceeding two feet in height on a grave space £231.00
• charge for additional inscriptions £83.00
• vase: not exceeding twelve inches in height £94.00, exceeding twelve inches in height £104.00
• charge for placing a vase not exceeding twelve inches on a grave without exclusive right of burial £83.00

Reservation of burial and cremation plots

• for the next available plot £105.00
• for a chosen plot £129.00
• for non-Rutland residents £154.00