Columbarium

Uncollected Ashes now have a solution! The Ashes Register

The Ashes Register Launches UK’s First ‘Uncollected Ashes’ Database in Collaboration with A.W. Lymn The Ashes Register is thrilled to announce the launch of the UK’s first ‘Uncollected Ashes’ database in partnership with A.W. Lymn The Family Funeral Service. This groundbreaking initiative addresses the longstanding issue of unclaimed ashes in the funeral industry, providing a […]

The Round Barrow – Dorset

Keep your ashes in a Beautiful Barrow – an ancient tradition in a modern context. Situated in the heart of Dorset this is a wonderful option to keep a loved ones ashes. Location Higher Ground Meadow, Corscombe Dorset DT2 0QN Capacity 990 niches – 3000 + urns Types of Niche Offered Shared niche for single […]

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Long Barrow – Ashes Interment – The Lost Village of Dode

Taking its inspiration from the prehistoric long barrows that once, long ago, perhaps were the most significant feature of our Kentish landscape and nestling comfortably within our ancient sacred site, Holly Barrow at Dode offers a beautiful and meaningful alternative approach to established crematoria, grave yards and natural burial grounds for your loved ones cremated ashes. It is a place […]

Council ponders the profit from a Columbarium

What should a council charge someone for a niche in their Columbarium? An interesting question, the Henley Standard reported on this giving us a rare insist into the machinations of a local authority in such matters. The town council has spent around £90,000 to fix up and convert a disused non-conformist chapel into a columbarium […]

St Neot’s Barrow – Cambridgeshire

A new columbarium offering niches for cremated remains Situated in beautiful countryside near the village of Hail Weston, near St Neots, Cambridgeshire Willow Row is a wonderful Ashes Barrow, an ancient and tradition burial mound made stone construction. It is a stone structure which is covered in soil, where you can have your loved ones […]

More columbarium controversy

Columbarium Controversy: Legal Debate about a Mausoleum in Wisconsin State What started as a spat between a church and local businesses on the construction of a columbarium has gone wider and now the State of Wisconsin have issued an opinion that concurred with the attorney general in Cedarburg – columbaria are the same as mausoleum. […]

Columbarium & Mausoleum Plans in Wisconsin

Is a columbarium a mausoleum? A hot debate in Wisconsin

Community debate over new structures to house cremated remains The attorney general of Cedarburg city, Michael Herbrand thinks so, but the reverend of the local Advent Lutheran Church disagrees. So why is this such a big deal? Well the Church had deigned a columbarium for their downtown (city centre) church which was to be the […]

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Long Barrow: Burial Chamber in Wiltshire

A fantastic Long Barrow columbarium where ashes can be buried for ever. Do you like tradition? Do you like the ancient Britain? If so we have found the right place for you. A history expert has built the first Long Barrow in England for maybe over a thousand years. This Long Barrow* is situated in […]

Hong Kong – Columbariums are where it’s at!

Hong Kong Columbariums – Why They’re Where It’s At Hong Kong – With a population of 7 million and an area of 426 square miles it is a bit squashed, in fact with a population density 25 times greater than that of the UK I think you could say space is of a premium. Couple […]

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Columbarium: St John the Baptist in Norwich

This is a real beauty, the Cathedral of St John the Baptist in Norwich has a wonderful columbarium in its vaulted undercroft at the east end of the Cathedral. St John’s is the second largest Catholic cathedral in the UK. The niches are finely worked bronze cabinets containing individual urns and are sited in […]