Organise your final resting place…or that for your entire family.

ONLY 30 PERPETUAL BURIAL PLOTS REMAIN FOR SALE in our cemetery, and are suitable for natural burials (each plot can hold up to 3-4 burials, or up to 16 ash placements). This is the oldest public cemetery in McLaren Vale and a State Heritage site, and will be forever protected as a cemetery and public place. The cemetery will have no further burial plots available for purchase after this time.

Natural burials are currently the most environmentally friendly burial option in Australia. See our cemetery schedule below for information and investment details.

ALL CEMETERY INCOME, including from the remaining plots, WILL BE REINVESTED INTO THE CARE OF THE WHOLE STATE HERITAGE SITE across the next 7 years, transforming this public place into a sustainable, cultural and environmental regeneration project, that can look after its self in the long term and is in service to the local community as well as visitors.

There are also areas for ash placements (including in garden areas to be increasingly planted out, as well as a memorial wall).

We have a relationship with a local “Natural Burials” Funeral Director (or you may use your director of choice). And our chapel is available for hire for funeral services. 

Become a part of the history of South Australia and make your final home (or that of your loved ones) in a State Heritage (forever protected) place, becoming more like a botanical garden over time via our community garden and placemaking project…

There are only a small number of cemetery plots remaining, and we are aiming to release and sell all these as prepaid sites in 2026 (payment can be across a three year period); so please be in touch if this is of interest (there are many more spots for ash placements across the garden). 

All cemetery memorials are managed by us, so please contact us about natural and place-sympathetic options.

Please be in touch if you wish to make a time with the Curator to reserve a place in the cemetery or to discuss options. 

This cemetery and site are owned, curated and care-taken by Hope Lovelock Deane, who has family stretching back eight generations buried in the cemetery, plus many layers of connection with McLaren Vale and surrounds, including the chapel and this corner of the town, with connections to over 30 settler families. See About

CEMETERY SCHEDULE