Our staff will practice extreme care in disinfecting all public areas and maintaining proper sanitation of our chapels, equipment and facilities. No masons, letter cutters or other workmen engaged in fixing, delivering, painting or repairing memorials will be admitted to the cemeteries on Saturdays, Sundays, Christmas Day, Good Friday and public holidays, or on any other day before 9am and must leave the cemetery no later than the official closing time, except in exceptional circumstances agreed in advance with the Council’s main cemetery office at its absolute discretion. Headstones Headstones A range of the finest headstones in a wide variety of materials that are permitted in the majority of cemeteries.

Selecting the right plants and flowers for your memorial garden is a very personal choice but can be overwhelming to decide what to choose. It’s a good idea to firstly consider your space and ensure that any plants you choose will have optimum growing conditions for their variety. Make sure there is enough light, drainage and that the soil type is correct for your chosen plants.Garden Memorials Garden Memorials Our range of Garden Cremation Memorials are exceptionally crafted, and designed as both a beautiful ornament and a receptacle for a loved one’s cremated remains. Dictionary of Scottish architects, accessed 28 March 2017 from http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=201938 The public gardens around the St Pancras Old Church were opened in 1877,after the churchyard was closed for burials in 1850.The gardens are made up of part of the old churchyard for the church of St Pancras,enlarged in 1800,and a separate burial ground for St Giles-in-the-Fields,added 1803.It was a preferred burial place for Catholics,with an area devoted to French émigrés.The burial ground and churchyard were partially destroyed by the development of the Midland Railway;the company formed a cutting in 1865 for the construction of the railway lines from St Pancras Station.The clearances of tombs and bodies was highly controversial and caused considerable protest;the graves were dug up at night,behind screens,a process overseen by Thomas Hardy,then an apprentice architect,and many years later recorded in a poem,‘The Levelled Churchyard’(1882).The grandest tombs survived,including the tomb to Sir John Soane(d 1837)and his wife(d 1815),but others were moved.The ground was levelled and the headstones were placed in mounds or around the walls.In 1875 the remaining land was acquired by the St Pancras Vestry for use as public space,and the gardens were opened to the public in June 1877;Baroness Burdett-Coutts laid the foundation stone of the monument she had presented,to commemorate the graves disturbed in the construction of the railway.The gardens were laid out in their present form in 1890-1 by the Vestry,in conjunction with the Midlands Railway Company. Jurassic is a limestone rich in fossils which is mostly found in Morocco. Unlike much of the memorial stone sundials these are natural and individual, the fossils will give each one a slightly different appearance. Sundials

The Grantee or his legal personal representative may transfer the exclusive right of burial, subject to the proper notice of such transfer being given to the Council on the appropriate form. The Council will then register the transfer and endorse a note thereof on the grant. If required we will supply a correctly sized urn free of charge. The sundial is fixed in place with a epoxy glue, these are shipped separately. Emery, Philip A , Wooldridge, Kevin, Philip A Emery and Kevin Wooldridge, St Pancras burial ground: excavations for St Pancras International, the London terminus of High Speed 1, 2002-3, (2011), 196 No interment will be permitted unless the body of the deceased person is contained in a coffin or shroud considered suitable for the interment in a grave and named accordingly.

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subsequent interments will be charged at the rate detailed in the Council’s published fees and charges for the year in which the internment occurs Today, visitors to the historic churchyard will find the Burdett-Coutts Memorial Sundial under a canopy of green-leaved trees. The tower stands on an octagonal base which is completely fenced-in by railings that display a plaque to Johann Christian Bach, who was buried in a nearby pauper’s grave. Application to place a new memorial, alter or add any inscription or replace, add to or remove a memorial from the cemetery must be submitted to the Council on the appropriate Memorial Application Form. All such work must be undertaken in accordance with the current Code of Practice, issued by the National Association of Monumental Masons.