Standard Price List from April 2024
All funeral directors are legally required to publish this price list for a standardised set of products and services, to help you think through your options and make choices, and to let you compare prices between different funerals directors (because prices may vary).
ATTENDED FUNERAL (funeral director’s charges only)
- This is a funeral where family and friends have a ceremony, event, or service for the deceased person at the same time as their burial or cremation – £2,551.00
- Taking care of all necessary legal and administrative arrangements – £870.00
- Collecting and transporting the deceased person from the place of death (normally within 15 miles of our premises) into our care – £225.00
- Care of the deceased person before the funeral in appropriate facilities. The deceased person will rest at our branch premises – £365.00
- Viewing of the deceased person for the family and friends, by appointment with us the funeral director. – £1.00
- Providing a suitable coffin for burial or cremation – the bridge coffin is a standard oak veneered coffin, fully lined and with electro brass or wooden handles £400.00
- At a date and time, you agree with us, we will take the deceased person direct to your choice of cemetery or crematorium (which can be up to 20 miles from our premises) in a hearse with the necessary staff to facilitate the funeral – £690.00
UNATTENDED FUNERAL
This is a funeral where family and friends choose to have a ceremony, event, or service for the deceased person at a later date and not at the same time as their burial or cremation. No family or friends can attend this funeral and no service will take place.
- Burial (funeral directors charges only) – £1050.00
- Cremation (funeral directors charges plus cremation fee) – £1560.00
FEES YOU MUST PAY – £974-£2163
Prices dependant on chosen cemetery
Prices available upon request
Please discuss any specific religious belief-based and/ or cultural requirements that you have with the funeral director.
ADDITIONAL FUNERAL DIRECTOR PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
The funeral director can supply a range of optional products and services, or we can arrange, on your behalf, for a third-party to supply them. Examples include:
- Embalming (Hygienic treatment to delay the natural effects of death) – £80.00
- Additional mileage (per mile) – £2.00
- Additional transfers of the deceased person’s body (e.g. to their home, to a place of worship etc) (per transfer) – £285.00
- Funeral Officiant (e.g. celebrant, minister of religion etc) from – £230.00
- Services supplied outside normal hours P.O.A
- Delivery of cremated remains £1.00
The funeral director can give you a full list of what they can supply. They are likely to charge for these additional products and services, so you may choose to take care of some arrangements without their involvement, or you could use a different supplier.
Coffins
- Bridge coffin – £400.00
- York coffin / Wharfedale coffin – £600.00
- Mayfair coffin – £735.00
- Willow coffin (or similar) – £955.00
- Swaledale wool coffin – £1030.00
- Cardboard coffins from – £465.00
- Cheltenham coffin – £520.00
- Solid Pine coffin – £760.00
DISBURSEMENTS
- Organist at the crematorium from – £80.00
- Ministers’ fees at the crematorium – From £240.00
- Press notices (Craven Herald) – £180.00 (EST)
- For church services, fees vary.
Costs for burial vary depending on where this is to take place.
- Grave digging fees (churchyards / Tarn Moor) from – £600.00
- Gravedigging fees (Waltonwrays cemetery) from – £950.00
- Bio Cremation Casket – £4.00
- Polytainer – £5.00
DIRECT CREMATION (FIXED PRICE) – £1560.00
The perfect funeral service where no funeral service is required or requested.
A Direct Cremation is a NO SERVICE, NO ATTENDANCE funeral service and includes the following:
- Provision of professional services, completion of all necessary documentation and liaison with third parties.
- Bringing the deceased into our care during normal offices hours, within a 10-mile radius of our premises and the use of our private Chapel of Rest (out of hours transfers may be subject to a supplementary charge).
- Provision of a simple coffin.
- The cremation fee – the cremation will take place at a time, date and location of our choice.
- Provision of a suitable vehicle to transfer the deceased to the crematorium.
- If you chose this option:
- Clients must attend our office to sign the necessary cremation paperwork.
- Visiting the deceased is not included in this package.
- Cremated remains must be collected from our offices.
Crematoria Fees
| Crematorium | Standard Fee Attended (Held over) Service | Standard Fee Attended (Same Day) Service | Unattended Service | Reduced Fee Attended (Early Morning) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skipton | £896 | £937 | £463 | £674 |
The information above gives the prices charged by Craven area crematorium for an adult (18+ Years) funeral. The attended prices are for a standard 40 minutes service time.
Crematoria fees may vary dependent on the regional charges.
Local authority Cemetery Fees (Waltonwrays Skipton)
| Exclusive Rights of burial fees (Adult) | |
|---|---|
| Full grave 30 years Earthen Grave | £1200.00 |
| Full grave 30 years Earthen Grave. Interment of casket exceeding 29” wide | £2488.00 |
| Full grave 30 years . For Vault / Brick / Wooden Grave | £1866.00 |
| Interment Fees | ||
|---|---|---|
| Interment fees- Earthen Grave | Grave for 1 or 2 interments | £950.00 |
| Grave for 3 interments | £1341.00 | |
| Inter Casket Exceeding 29” wide | £1431.00 | |
| Weekend Interment Fee (subject to availability) | Price on application | |
| Interment of Cremated Remains | £199.00 | |
| Construction of Vault/Brick grave. Exclusive Rights & Interment Fees also apply | Price on application | |
| Open and Inter in Existing Constructed Vault | £809.00 | |
The above prices are based on local authority (Craven Bereavement Services) Fees only.
Charges may vary dependent on local authority or church yard costings.
Disclosure of Interests
The Registered owners of this business is its Directors/Share Holders; VJ Howcroft-Metcalfe & JR Howcroft.
We have no business or financial interest in price comparison websites which compares Funeral director services / or Crematoria Services and their respective prices.
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