For centuries people have created memorials to remember their loved ones. A memorial provides us with focus for our personal memories - a place to visit, lay flowers, and reflect on happy times. This section takes you through the different options for burial and cremation memorials to help you choose the most appropriate memorial for your loved one.
You may arrange a memorial at any of our funeral homes, by telephone or via this web site. You may prefer to call to our showroom at 893 Christchurch Road, Pokesdown, Bournemouth (known as Living Stones) where we have a large number of examples on display.
Before deciding upon a memorial it is very important to be aware of the regulations that govern the grave; there are restrictions at most burial grounds.
The selection of memorials we show on this web site are separated into sub-sections for ease of selection. Clearly it is not possible to demonstrate every possible memorial and therefore the examples should be seen as something that can be adapted to your personal requirements; you may like one memorial but in a different material, size or shape - the choice is yours.
It is worth having a look around the burial ground to see what others have done in similar situations and what has suffered the elements well. Any memorial will be affected by the weather and by surrounding trees.
Stone is of course a natural material and as such the colour and pattern can differ from what is shown in examples.
The costs are for the supply of the memorial only. The cost of the inscription and fixing the memorial should be added along with VAT and a fee to the burial authority. The cost of fixing the memorial to the grave will depend on the size of the memorial, the location of the grave and the regulations of the burial authority.