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Newark Cemetery

Cemetery

Newark Cemetery is located on London Road, NG24 1SQ.

The Cemetery lies close to the Town Centre on London Road and was not just conceived and built as a memorial and resting place but also as a park for the people of the Town.

The Cemetery is also important internationally as it contains the Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery which is the historical burial place of General Wlaldyslaw Sikorski (the wartime leader of Poland) whose body was repatriated to Poland in 1993, but whose memorial remains.

Within the Cemetery there is also a Chapel Interpretation Centre. This is the former Chapel which was converted in 2009 with money from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The Centre has information and display boards explaining some of the history behind burials, the families that use the site, the flora and fauna that can be found there and famous Townsfolk buried there.

The Centre is also used as a room for training courses, sympathetic with the Cemetery environment. It is available for hire at a modest, no profit, fee. It can be used for small exhibitions, as a meeting place for small groups, or as a school room, an artistic studio or a quiet area. It can also be used for small religious meetings.

Please contact the Town Hall if you require any further information on 01636 680333 or e-mail post@newark.gov.uk

Friends of Newark Cemetery

The ethos behind the group is:

  • To offer suggestions to Newark Town Council on ways to improve the service and facilities of the Cemetery
  • To provide input into the Cemetery Regulations
  • To help identify problems with vandalism and other activities detrimental to the well-being of the Cemetery and to work with the Council to seek solutions to any such problems
  • To play an active part in assisting the Town Council with practical tasks such as litter collection, painting seats, benches, organising open days etc
  • To provide a welcoming presence and a source of help and information at the Cemetery during opening hours and to act as guides to visitors to the Cemetery

Anyone is welcome to become a Friend of Newark Cemetery; please call 01636 680333 or email post@newark.gov.uk for Membership details.

Cemetery Fees

The Cemetery currently has both areas for burials and a Garden of Remembrance for cremated remains.

Interment 
£
 
 Non Resident (at council discretion)
Interment of the body of a stillborn child, or a child whose age at the time of death did not exceed 1 month.
No Charge
 No Charge
Interment of the body of a child whose age at the time of death exceeded 1 month but did not exceed 18 years.
No Charge
  673
Cremated remains interment of the body of a child whose age at the time of death exceeded one month but did not exceed 18 years
No Charge 
 258
Interment of the body of a person whose age at the time of death exceeded 18 years.
 670 1,340
Cremated remains interment of the body of a person whose age at the time of death exceeded 18 years
 150 300
Additional soil removal (graves exceeding standard dimensions
180
Rights of burial £ Doubled for Non Resident (£)
For exclusive rights of burial for 50 years in an earthen grave.
 670 1,340
Additional charge for a headstone base (including VAT).
 220 –
Exclusive rights of burial for 50 years of cremated remains in an earthen grave.
260
 520
A walled grave of 8ft x 4ft.
 Cost on Application Cost on Application
A vault of 8ft x 8ft.
 Cost on Application Cost on Application
Memorials  Cost (£)
Headstone
250
Grave Surround
 210
Headstone and grave surround
 350
Tablet 100
Vase with an inscription
 100
Additional inscription on Headstone
 100
Miscellaneous Fees Cost (£)
Interment outside of specified hours (inc. VAT)
220
Tree plaques
Cost +10%
Memorial seat plaques for 10 years 150
Book of remembrance
3 lines
 80
6 lines
 120
9 lines
 200
Exhumation – body
 4,000
Exhumation – Cremated remains
390
Memorial tablets
12″ x 12″ 280
18″ x 12″
360
300
Additional inscription
 100
Additional inscription existing tablet
150