Helping to honour the memory of your loved one, we are proud to work alongside one of the area's most respected stonemasons, Samuel Jacob Memorials, to create unique and beautiful headstones and cremation memorials for our families. Working hard to provide a lasting tribute for your dearly departed, Sam has a showroom based alongside our Gainsborough funeral home, and can cater to all types of design, lettering, materials and budget.
Working with our team and the stonemasons, we strive to provide you with a special and unique tribute to life, personalised to your exact requirements. Following the brief, a design will first be created to preview the shape, lettering and any dates, compliant with all relevant local authority regulations. We will invite you to check the inscription laid out on the stone prior to cutting, so you can change your mind about the wording or the layout if you wish.
Our teams can provide a wide range of standard and themed headstones for cemetery graves, made from a choice of materials which include granite, marble, slate and stone. Most of our headstones are made from highly durable granite, available in many colours, from greys to pinks, to blacks and browns. Granite is one of the strongest materials for headstone use, designed and crafted to last decades.
Every local authority and individual cemetery has regulations regarding the types of headstone it will allow, including limitations on the headstone style, the overall proportions as well as details in the inscription. Our dedicated teams are experienced in understanding all the local rules, ensuring that all memorial plans are fully approved with the local council and burial authority before any memorial work is started.
Owned and maintained by the Church of England, churchyards often have very specific rules surrounding the style and placement of headstones in their grounds. Unlike a cemetery, where specifications and inscription details are generally more relaxed, churchyards do not usually permit heart or otherwise shaped headstones, and many will insist on stone or light coloured marble, rather than polished granite.
Specifications for churchyard gravestones tend to be more focussed around natural tones and religious shapes, designed to complement the other stones that are already installed in the grounds, and inline with other churchyards in the dioceses. Our teams will be always be happy to liaise with local churches on your behalf to check the rules and regulations that need to be honoured before choosing a memorial.
Even if your loved one has a cremation instead of a burial, they can still have a headstone, either on a plot at a cemetery or through interment in a bereavement garden. Most crematoriums have a dedicated area for memorials, and local churchyards and cemeteries usually have plots for cremated remains, where a memorial or headstone can be placed in memory, sometimes near to relatives and family members.
Cremation memorials are often a lot smaller than headstones used for burials, and usually contain a single or double vase, or space for mourners to leave flowers and tributes. When arranging for a cremation memorial, it is important to check with the crematorium, cemetery or bereavement garden to find out whether there are any restrictions on what memorials are allowed, where they can be placed and the type of inscription.
A larger alternative to the traditional lawn headstone, kerbset memorials cover the full grave and are one option that you might want to consider when choosing an appropriate headstone for your loved one. Kerbsets are often chosen to make a gravestone stand out, or for larger families where more flowers or tributes may be left for the deceased. Some styles of kerbset allow for the central area to be filled with coloured stones, natural chippings, plants and shrubs, whilst others come with a matching cover slab or vases.
Also known as a kerbed headstone, kerbsets often allow more space for inscriptions and tributes, allowing families to get more creative with the design. You could opt for an additional footplate with your kerbset, allowing space for another inscription, or you could go with a different decorative feature entirely. If you have a specific idea in mind for a kerbset, or require a specific shape, style or material, please do let us know and we can ensure you have all the options available before making a choice.
With a proud sixty year history of caring for local families through times of bereavement, our qualified funeral directors will always be here for you, treating your loved one as if they were our own.
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