CEMETERY SCHEDULE
The Botanical Cemetery, McLaren Vale, South Australia
(formerly The Congregational Cemetery, 1841)
including The Culture Garden community garden & placemaking project (2022)
Curator, Site Custodian & legal Cemetery Authority:
Hope Lovelock Deane
The Pioneer Chapel, 6 Tatachilla Rd, McLaren Vale
PO Box 13, SA 5171
harveststudio.com.au
glorymclarenvale@gmail.com
Please use our contact form to make a time with our Curator, if you are interested in securing a plot (or area for an ash placement) or would like to talk through your options. You can book a visit or a callback…
We are happy to chat with you, or make an appointment to show you around this cemetery, if you are interested in reserving a place in our limited capacity historic and holistic site.
This cemetery will always be protected as a public place and cemetery, via The Cemeteries Act, as well as by The State Heritage Act.
Please note that heritage cemeteries include ongoing maintenance costs, in their one-off fees.
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Our CEMETERY FEE SCHEDULE includes GST in the pricing (& does not included funeral director/ burial/ memorial costs):
Perpetual burial plots (suitable for 3-4 burials &/or up to 16 ash placements)
Perpetual/ forever lease: 22,000
Plus, per interment
Administration & garden fees:
Application for burial/ interment right (new or renewal) 200
Memorial permit/ license 365
Administration 210
Garden planting & cemetery maintenance 210
And Grave fees
Curator sighting fee at burial M- F 330 Sat 455 Sun 630
Site pegging/ liaison 335
Removal/ relocation of existing soil 265
Site selection (beyond the next available plot chosen by us) 160
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Additional burial on heritage site 3,550 (Adult)
Child Burial fees POA
(Interred at child depth)
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Perpetual/ forever ash placements (garden): Double (2 placements next to each other) 12,200 - Single (one placement) 7,700
Plus, per placement
Curator sighting fee, interment of ashes M-F 495 Sat 650 Sun 770
Application for interment right (new or renewal) 200
Bud vase for niche wall 125
Plaque install 200
Memorial Permit 365
Site liaison 335
Plus, per placement
Administration & garden fees:
Administration 210
Garden planting & cemetery maintenance 210
Site selection (beyond the next available plot chosen by us) 160
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Perpetual/ forever ash placements (wall): Double 12,000 Single 7,000
*Mclaren Vale residents save 3,500 per placement
Plus, per placement
Curator sighting fee, interment of ashes M-F 495 Sat 650 Sun 770
Application for interment right (new or renewal) 200
Bud vase for niche wall 125
Plaque install 200
Memorial Permit 365
Plus Administration & garden fees per placement
Administration 210
Garden planting & cemetery maintenance 210
Site selection (beyond the next available plot chosen by us) 160
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Placement of headstones, as memorials, perpetual (eg. relocated from other cemeteries) 2,200 (plus masonry if required)
Install 200
Placement of plaque memorial only, perpetual 850
We welcome benches or birdbaths (etc) as memorials; please talk with us about these options (of approved items) to be placed within the cemetery.
Other cemetery fees:
Cutting & removal of concrete floor & replace with garden 1,350
Simultaneous interment in same grave 1,150
Interment of partial remains <600mm 575
Lift & deepen per deceased:
Interred 3-9 yrs 5,500
Interred 10-15 yrs 3,500
Interred 16-20 yrs 2,200
Interred 21 plus yrs 1,200
Cutting of concrete floor for ashes (includes placement) 715
Plaque installation only 200
Application for memorial permit 200
Application for amendment of memorial permit 120
Extra inscription 125
Other memorial works 125
Site pegging/ liaison for memorials 330
Application for transfer or surrender of interment right 200
Historical search per hr 100
Removal of ashes 495 M-F (A/H surcharge 195)
Cutting concrete for removal of ashes 375
Exhumation 7,950
Please note:
All leases outlined above, do not include the cost of plaques or memorial stones / monumentation.
Bronze plaques generally are around $6-800 for 7-10 lines, organic stones start at $250, additional plaque lines are around $50.
Single or double granite pedestals can also be purchased from stone masons (who apply to us for approval and a permit).
We have wonderful examples of organic styles of memorials, and how to create a plot in the style of a garden, from our time in Scandinavia. Please ask us, to have a look, for inspiration (in line with the direction of the whole cemetery as a welcoming public garden).
All perpetual cemetery leases are transferable (via a form with us) and non-refundable.
The Cemetery Authority can only take instructions regarding an existing plot, from the current interment right holder.
These rights can be transferred if required (via a form with us).
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Use of the cemetery for funerals/ services:
Half day hire 145 (9-1 or 1-5), 4hrs
Full day hire 310, 8hrs
*public toilets are currently across Main Rd
Our chapel, the first church in McLaren Vale, is available to be booked for simple and cosy funeral, memorial, and life-celebration services.
Please email us an outline of your request and needs, with proposed dates, number of people & any requirements you might need, plus your best phone contact (& times to talk) and Hope will be in touch, as soon as possible.
We supply the chapel, as a room, & any seating and other requirements are to be organised by the funeral director or family requesting use.
Lease & fixed costs PAYMENT PLAN INFORMATION:
Securing a Prepaid perpetual cemetery lease, for ash placements or grave plots (with all money reinvested into the upkeep of the State Heritage site and its placemaking projects) involves a 30% deposit, with the balance to be paid over the next three years (in monthly instalments, or advance lump sums; or before any interments).
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TERMS regarding MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS
All botanicals and memorials for graves and tributes are requested to be made from natural materials and foam free (a micro plastic); fresh or dried flowers only…no synthetic fabric or plastic flowers please (to help us care for the environment). Plants are very welcome!
All memorials, and any cemetery work, are to be approved by the Curator & Legal Cemetery Authority, Hope Lovelock Deane.
Memorials made from natural materials (eg. stone, wood and slate) are welcome. Birdbaths, garden seating (including logs or stones), lizard baths etc. are welcome as memorials (via consultation with Curator).
As we are creating a garden-like cemetery, we request graves and ash areas to be non-built up and to use only a memorial (if required) and plantings, if it is wished for a site to be marked in any way. All unmarked graves will be planted out, over time, as part of the garden…
Families are welcome to plant out their site by request, and with approval, within three-six months of an interment, otherwise our gardening team will plant out their site plot/ interment site in keeping with the section of the garden it is located in. We are planting the site in (loose) zones to reflect the waves of settlement of the area; Indigenous, Anglo-Celtic, Mediterranean, & Multi-cultural, linked by locally endemic species.
Please note:
Caretaking of burial plots, ash plots and monuments / memorials, is the RESPONSIBILITY OF FAMILIES…or leaseholders.
Any unkempt areas will be tidied by the cemetery (or planted out sensitively, as part of the garden) over time.
Book a phone chat or a cemetery visit now, to secure one of the last remaining interment places in the oldest cemetery in McLaren Vale…