Love Lane Cemetery

 

Love Lane Cemetery is a lawned cemetery managed by Wem Town Council. It is located off Love Lane Wem SY4 5QP  and shares a small car park with Love Lane allotments

 

CEMETERY CHARGES

 

1. The Fees and Payments below apply where the person to be interred was, a resident of Wem Urban Parish or was a resident of Wem Urban Parish immediately prior to entering a hospital, hospice, nursing home or other care arrangement outside of Wem Urban Parish. The fees for the burial of persons who do not qualify as residents will be doubled.

2.The Council has declared its intention to maintain the Burial Ground as a LAWN CEMETERY to facilitate maintenance and to keep down costs. For this reason the erection of headstones on full graves (not exceeding 3’ 6” in height) will be allowed and one small moveable ornamental vase (not exceeding 8” high, 8” deep, 8” wide on a base no larger than 10” square) will also be permitted, but rails, kerbs, slabs, gravel and other adornments will not be allowed.  Similarly, after the subsidence period has elapsed no mounding of soil on the graves will be permitted. There are separate regulations for the interment of cremated remains in the cremated remains section.

3.Persons wishing to erect headstones on graves should first consult the Clerk of the Council regarding the Council’s conditions regulating the erection of monuments and the Council’s written approval must be obtained before proceeding.

Plot Purchase and Interment Fees

2025-26

Children*

 

A child under the age of 1 month at death

£20

Plot purchase underage of 18

£640

Interment Fee under age of 18

£130

*the actual fee to the family will be £0 but the indicated costs will be recovered from the Children’s Funeral Fund

 

Purchase of plot for persons exceeding 18 years at death

£640

Interment Fee (for each interment over 18 years of age)

£320

Interment of ashes in existing grave

£190

 

 

Memorial Fee for the erection of a Headstone

 

To a height not exceeding 3 feet

£300

In excess of 3 feet but not exceeding 3ft 6inches high       

£800

Additional Inscription              

£35

 

 

Transfer of Exclusive Right of Burial

£35

Renewal of Exclusive Right of Burial prior to expiration

 

For a period not exceeding 25 years from the date of expiration of existing rights

 

 

 

Fees for interment of cremated remains in Cremated Remains section

 

Plot Purchase fee over 18

£275

Plot Purchase fee under 18

£100

Plot Purchase fee under 1 month at death

£20

Interment fee

£190

Gravedigging fee

£60

Erection of Headstone fee

£150

Up to two interments are permitted per cremated remains plot

 

 

 

Grave Digging Charges with effect from 1 April 2025

 

Single Burial Excavation

£320

Double Burial Excavation

£340

Cremated Remains Excavation

£60

Additional Costs

 

Casket Shapes/Oversized Coffins Surcharge

£30

 

REGULATIONS FOR MAINTENANCE OF LOVE LANE CEMETERY

The Town Council has resolved to maintain the Love Lane Cemetery as a lawned cemetery.

The Town Council has decided to maintain a lawn cemetery because it considers it the only way to ensure the grave spaces are maintained in a clean and tidy condition at a reasonable cost in the future. Love Lane Cemetery Updated Rules and Regulations 2025

Your attention is drawn to the following –
1.The general law of management of local authorities cemeteries is contained in the Local Authorities Cemeteries Order 1977.

2.No mounding is permitted.  Soon after interment grave spaces will be levelled and grass seeded.  The Council’s employee will keep the grass short.

3.One headstone and one movable vase no larger than 8" high, 8" deep, 8" wide on a base no larger than 10" square will be permitted for each full grave space.  No other adornment such as rails or kerbs and no gravel will be allowed. Please note there are separate dimensions interments in the cremated remains section. 

4.Persons wishing to erect headstones on graves should first obtain written permission from the Town Council before proceeding.  In practice your chosen stonemason usually submits an application to the Town Council for approval on your behalf.

5.Headstones may be erected on a narrow concrete base provided that such a base is sunk just below the surrounding ground so that it will not foul the Council’s grass cutting machine.