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Burials and cremations are taking place but restrictions are in place. The Crematorium Chapel is open to allow short committal services.
Strict traffic control measures are in place at Roselawn to prevent funerals converging and to maintain traffic and pedestrian separation. We have stencilling and signage in place to remind visitors and mourners that they should maintain social distancing.
We continue to work with funeral directors, undertakers and faith groups to make sure bereaved families are aware of these measures and are given support at this difficult time. We understand that families may want to make alternative arrangements to hold a service or ceremony elsewhere.
We would like to express our sincere sympathy to all those who are bereaved in these very difficult circumstances.
The City of Belfast Crematorium Chapel is open to allow 15-minute committal services for 28 mourners. This number includes children. The risk assessment only allows short committal services. We would encourage families to hold longer funeral services at other appropriate venues.
This limit of 28 mourners means that people can be safely accommodated in our chapel with controls that reduce the risk of coronavirus transmission including appropriate social distancing measures and robust cleaning between services. Face coverings must be worn.
We will continue to make decisions based on guidance and updates from Government and Department of Health.
The Funeral Director can collect cremated remains. Or, families may collect remains by appointment. Families will need to make an appointment by calling the Crematorium Office on 028 9044 8342. Only the person named on the applicant’s instructions to crematorium form can collect cremated remains. They will need to provide photographic ID.
Please call 028 9044 8342 to arrange an appointment.
When you come to collect:
We have resumed the burial or scattering of cremated remains across all sites.
Cremations are available at these times:
Day | Time |
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Monday to Friday | 7.20am - 5.20pm |
Saturday | 7.20am - 2pm |
There are no cremations on Sundays |
For information on accessibility at the crematorium, go to City of Belfast Crematorium (link opens in new window).
These forms may be required in the event of organising a cremation.
Form | Information | |
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Burial and Cremation information form | This form can be faxed to the Bereavement Services office in advance. The original should then be hand delivered with all other relevant cremation forms to the Bereavement Services office. | |
Form A - Application for Cremation (PDF - 1.1MB) | The application should be made by an executor or nearest relative of the deceased. | |
Applicants instructions to Crematorium form (PDF - 179KB) | This form must be signed by the person who completed Form A. | |
Form B, C and F - Certificate of Medical Attendant, Confirmatory Medical Certificate and Authority to Cremate (PDF - 1.7MB) Please staple Form B, C and F together prior to submission. |
To be completed along with the Pacemakers/Fixion form and must be accompanied by Form A. |
Form B must be completed by a registered medical practitioner who has attended the deceased during their last illness, within 28 days before death, and seen and identified the body after death. |
Form C must be completed by a registered medical practitioner of not less than five years standing who should be independent of the Form B doctor and not have been involved in the patients care. | ||
Form F is signed by the Medical Referee on our behalf when they are satisfied that all forms have been completed correctly. | ||
Pacemaker/Fixion form (PDF - 1.5MB) | Pacemaker/Fixion form must be signed by the medical practitioner who completed Form B. | |
Form H, I and F - Still born child (PDF - 1.7MB) Please staple Form H, I and F together prior to submission. |
Form H application should be made by a parent of the child. | |
Form I can be completed by either a medical practitioner or registered midwife who was present at stillbirth, or who examined the body of the child. | ||
Form F is signed by the Medical Referee on our behalf when they are satisfied that all forms have been completed correctly. | ||
You must also register a death or stillbirth.
All original forms must be fully completed and hand delivered to the Bereavement Services office. Email copies will not be accepted. |
Medical practitioners should check that all questions have been answered and provide all contact details, including postcode, clearly on the forms.
You can request hard copies of these forms by emailing cemeteries@belfastcity.gov.uk, calling 028 9027 0296 or by contacting:
Bereavement Services,
Ground Floor, Cecil Ward Building,
4-10 Linenhall Street,
Belfast
BT2 8PB
The latest timeframe for submission of cremation forms is as follows:
Day of cremation | Forms to be delivered by |
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Monday | 11am on the previous Saturday |
Tuesday to Friday | 12 noon on the day before |
Saturday | 11am on Friday |
If you have any queries regarding the forms please contact the Bereavement Services Office.
We are committed to caring sensitively and respectfully for all of those entrusted to us. Our policies and processes for infant cremation are aligned to the latest guidance on infant cremation. Recommendations Lord Bonomy’s Infant Cremation Commission (June 2014 Scotland).
In line with Lord Bonomy’s recommendations we consider cremated remains and ashes to be the same thing and we support the commission’s definition that ashes are “all that is left in the cremator at the end of the cremation process, and following the removal of any metal.”
Cremation fees include VAT where applicable and are valid from 1 April 2022 until 31 March 2023.
Our cremation fees include the Medical Referee’s fee and disposal of cremated remains packed for collection or scattered in the Garden of Remembrance. They also include a cremation certificate for cremated remains that are to be collected. If you request a duplicate or additional cremation certificate a charge will be applied.
Type | Belfast residents |
Non-Belfast residents |
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Stillborn child or child aged one or under | No charge | No charge |
Child (aged 17 or under) | No charge | No charge |
Adult (aged 18 or above) | £408 | £668 |
Hospital cremations | £112 | £217 |
Retained organs (adult aged 18 or above) | £112 | £217 |
Retained organs (child aged 17 or under) | No charge | No charge |
Saturday and public and council holiday levy (adult aged 18 or above) | £190 | £190 |
Saturday and public and council holiday levy (child aged 17 or under) | No charge | No charge |
Duplicate/additional cremation certificate or copy documentation requested | £19 |
£19 |
Type | Belfast residents | Non-Belfast residents | Belfast resident aged 17 or under |
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Fee for removal and re-burial (including casket) | £184 | £364 | No charge |
Fee for removal (including casket) | £174 | £342 |
No charge |
Interment of cremated remains at a memorial tree | £86 | £174 |
No charge |
Saturday and public holiday levy for a burial of cremated remains at a memorial tree | £96 | £96 |
No charge |
You can check our fees page or call 028 9027 0296 for more information.