Services
Cemeteries
Information about our Parish Cemetery
The Parish Council maintains both the cemetery at the rear of the Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul and the now closed cemetery in Marlow Road.
The cemetery under the management of the Parish Council comprises a number of areas:
The churchyard (has been completely closed to new burials for many years)
The churchyard extension (now full)
The parish cemetery
Burial plots are only available to parishioners or former parish residents.
Residents‘ refers to those people that lived in the Parish of Stokenchurch immediately prior to their death or who lived in the parish and moved into a nursing home or hospice less than 10 years before their death.
‘Non-Residents‘ refers to all those living outside of the Parish of Stokenchurch.
The Exclusive Rights of Burial is a deed of grant issued to the purchaser of the grave. This deed entitles the holder to determine who is buried in the grave and apply for a Memorial Permit. If the ownership of a deed has changed, proof will need to be provided to the Council before any interment can take place.
Children’s Funeral Fund (CCF): Please note that all parents are entitled to the services listed below on a free of charge basis via the Government Children’s Funeral Fund (CFF) if the child is aged between 24 weeks gestation and 18 years.
- burial fees
- cremation fees, including the cost of a doctor’s certificate
- coffin, shroud or casket (up to a cost of £300)
No pre-purchase or reservation of plots is permitted.
Any person whose name appears on the Register of Electors, or is eligible to appear on the Register, as well as their children under the age of majority, may be interred in the Burial Ground on payment of the appropriate charges.
Former parishioners who have already acquired burial rights to a double grave will remain eligible
Cremation plots are in the Churchyard Extension which is administered by St Peter and St Paul’s Church. Please contact the South
Chilterns Group of Churches administrator on 01494 854045 or via this webpage if a cremation plot is required below:
The rules are here
Note that:
- Work permits MUST be obtained for all works to graves and gravestones in the Cemetery from the clerk to the Parish Council.
- Stokenchurch Parish Council will not allow any gravestones that do not meet our regulations.
- Strictly no access for works without an approved Work Permit.
- The council reserve the right to remove any works that do not comply with the agreed Work Permit.
Links to documents regarding the cemetery are linked in the boxes below:
