MULLION PARISH COUNCIL	

Mullion Cemetery – Interment Prices and Plot Purchases

Exclusive Right of Burial

It is Mullion Parish Council’s policy that an exclusive right of burial is purchased if an interment is to be made or a memorial erected on a grave.  The right normally lasts for 100 years, and the 100-year time span commences from the date of purchase of the grave space.

If there is no exclusive right of burial, it is open to the Parish Council to bury unrelated bodies in the same grave, subject to a sufficiency of depth and providing any existing buried remains are not disturbed.  Such graves are known variously as common or public graves.

The fees indicated apply where the person to be interred was at the time of death ordinarily resident in, and a parishioner of, the Parish of Mullion.  In any other case, where the deceased has very strong local connections and a request for burial is sought and granted by the Burial Board of Mullion, the fees and payments would normally be doubled.  Please note that costs shown do not include preparation of the grave nor fees for any officiating minister.

Purchase of Burial Plot (Exclusive Right for 100 years)

Person 10 years and over at time of death					£200.00
Person under 10 years of age at time of death					No Charge
Cremation Plot – Person 10 years and over 					£100.00
Cremation Plot – Person under 10						No Charge

Interment Fees

(A)	– Burial

A)	Person over 10 years of age at time of death				£150.00
B)  Person under 10 years of age at time of death				No Charge

(B)	– Cremated Remains

A)	Person 10 years and over at time of death - in grave space		£150.00
B)  Person under 10 years of age at time of death - in grave space		No Charge
C)  Person 10 and over – in cremation plot					£50.00
D)  Person under 10 – in cremation plot						No Charge

Fees for a second interment in the same plot will be in accordance with (A) or (B) above.

Erection of Memorials

Mullion is a lawn cemetery, maintained at the Parish Council’s expense, where headstones are only allowed at the head of each grave and memorial stones in cremation areas.  If flower containers are required, they must be incorporated into the headstone or memorial stone.  No planting shall be permitted within the grave space.

Erection of a headstone, not to exceed 1220mm (4ft) in height nor 840mm (3ft) in width	 £20.00
Flat memorial stone 460mm (18 inches) x 460mm (18 inches) in cremation area		 £20.00

Please note that it is the responsibility of the owner(s) to keep all headstones etc. in good repair.  If a headstone becomes dangerous, the Mullion Parish Council may serve Notice requiring the owner(s) to repair or remove it.  If the owner(s) fail to do so, the Parish Council may remove the offending item and shall not be liable to compensate the owner(s) in such a case.  (Article 16(2) and Schedule3, Local Authorities Cemeteries Order 1977)

Chapel of Rest Stationing of coffins in the Chapel of Rest
per coffin per night    								£7.00

Clerk’s fee 
for any burial entry in the records, or provision of an extract 
from the records									£20.00

Any other matters not stipulated above to be referred to the Burial Board (Mullion Parish Council) for decision.  From Tuesday 20 September 2005, the pre-purchase of plot(s) is no longer available.

If you require any further information, please contact the Clerk to the Parish Council using the following contact details:-

Mrs Samantha Folds
Clerk to Mullion Parish Council
The Parish Office
Mullion School
Meaver Road
Mullion
Cornwall
TR12 7EB

Tel: 01326 241445
Email: mullionpc@btinternet.com

Adopted May 2018