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GENERAL REGULATIONS.
1.—Orders for Interments must be given upon Printed Forms, which may be obtained
at the Office of the Burial Board, Vestry Hall, Hammersmith, or of the Superintendent at
the Cemetery.
2. —The Order is to be delivered at the Office of the Burial Board, and all Fees and
Charges paid at the same time, which, in the case of Purchased Graves, must include the
Fee for Grant of Grave Space, and Head and Foot Stone or Monument.
3 The consent in writing of the owner of any Purchased Grave, to the Interment
therein of any corpse other than that of the owner, must be left at the Office with the
Order for Interment.
4.—Orders for Interment in an Earth Grave, Common Ground, must be given by 12
noon on the day (exclusive of Sunday) before the Funeral; for Selected Ground, two
clear days" notice (exclusive of Sunday); and for a Brick Grave, three clear days' notice
exclusive of Sunday) must be given.
5.—Interments may be made daily from the 1st March to the 31st October, between
half-past One and Four o'clock ; and from the 1st November to the last day of February,
between One and Three-thirty o'clock, except on Sundays, Good Friday, and Christmas
Day, on which days there will be no Interments; if earlier or later 7s. 6d. extra, time to
be arranged.
6.—The Registrar's Certificate of Death, or the Coroner's Warrant when an inquest
has been held, must be given to the Superintendent at the Burial Ground. In the case of
a still-born child, a Medical Certificate must be given ; the Fee for Burial is 2s. 6d., to be
paid at the Office.
7.—The Official Regulations require that no body shall be buried in any Vault or
Walled Grave, unless the coffin be separately entombed in an air-tight manner- that is,
by properly cemented stone or brickwork, which shall never be disturbed.
8.—All Gravestones. Monuments, Memorials, and Inscriptions also the Descriptions
of Shrubs to be planted over any grave, are to be subject to the approval of the Burial
Board, and a drawing showing the form and dimensions of every Tomb or Monument
proposed to be erected, and also a copy of every inscription if containing anything more
than the name, date of death, and age of deceased—must be left at the Office of the Board
for approval.
9.—Whenever a burial has taken place, the surface of the earth shall, as early as
practicable—unless a Monument is to erected or the mound to be preserved - be levelled,
and planted with grass, flowers, or other suitable vegetation, and in no case shall the bare
earth be left exposed.
10.—The owner of any Purchased Grave Space can plant shrubs or flowers over the
space purchased within the limits assigned to a Tomb ; but the Board may at any time
trim, cut, or entirely remove the same, if they shall think it necessary or expedient so
to do.
11. - Gravestones and Monuments can only be erected over Purchased Graves, but
Stones not exceeding 18in, by 12in. or Iron Tablets of approved pattern, will be allowed
over Common Graves upon payment of 10s. and 2s. 6d. respectively.
12.—No Head Stone is to exceed 3ft. 6in., nor Foot Stone 1ft 6in. in height, without
consent of the Burial Board. Stone or Marble Crosses must not exceed 3ft. 6in. by
1ft. 6in., except upon payment of the Monumental Fee, Iron Railings and Flat Stones
over Earth Graves are not to extend beyond 6ft. 6in. by 2ft. 6in. of surface area.
13.—No hewing or dressing of stones will be permitted within the Cemetery, or the
approaches to the same, and all lubbish, refuse, stones, &c , remaining after the erection
of a Monument, must be removed forthwith by the person erecting the same.
14.—The Board reserves to itself the right of retaking possession of a Purchased
Grave Space, unless a Head and Foot Stone or Monument be erected within twelve
months.
15.—A plan of the Cemetery, and also a Register of Burials, both in the consecrated
and unconsecrated portions of the ground, are kept at the Office of the Burial Board,
where, during Office hours, searches may be made and certified extracts obtained.
W. P. COCKBURN,
Clerk to the Burial Board.
Office : -Vestry Hall, Broadway
Hammersmith,
Office Hours from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. No applications can be attended to at other hours,
The Office is Closed on the usual Bank Holidays.
APRIL, 1891.