Southend Crematorium fees

Southend Crematorium, on Sutton Road, is run by Southend-on-Sea City Council. A direct (unattended) cremation costs £325, a committal-only service with family attendance but no memorial service costs £880, and a full memorial service with cremation costs £1,100. Every figure below is verified against the council’s own published fee schedule.

Cremation fees

Fees verified 2026-07-04. Source: Southend-on-Sea City Council bereavement services fees and charges.

Chapels and facilities

Southend Crematorium has two chapels. The West Chapel seats around 100 and is the larger of the two; the South Chapel seats around 44. Both are wheelchair accessible, multi-denominational, and can be arranged for non-Christian and secular services, with religious symbols displayed or removed as the family prefers. A separate church on site, used for Christian denomination services, seats around 40.

Both chapels have an Obitus music system, with a pipe organ in the West Chapel and an electronic organ in the South Chapel. The Obitus system also handles the £96 live and on-demand webcast, and can record services onto CD or DVD. There are two small waiting rooms, one with refreshments available, and wheelchair-accessible toilets reached through the memorial chapel.

Source: Sutton Road Cemetery and Southend Crematorium – council directory listing.

Parking and getting there

Parking at the crematorium itself is limited to 80 spaces, including 4 disabled bays. At busy times, overflow parking is available at the cemetery across the road. The site is around 1.3 miles from Victoria Avenue and 0.7 miles from Prittlewell railway station, with a bus stop directly outside that runs roughly every 30 minutes.

Source: Sutton Road Cemetery and Southend Crematorium – council directory listing.

Opening hours

The cemetery and crematorium grounds are open every day of the year, including Christmas Day, New Year’s Day and all other bank holidays:

The cemetery office is staffed Monday to Friday, 10am–3.30pm, and phone lines operate during those hours. It’s worth calling ahead to check whether an appointment is needed for a visit.

Source: Sutton Road Cemetery and Southend Crematorium – council directory listing.

Memorial gardens and ashes

The Garden of Remembrance covers eight acres and includes formal gardens, a sunken rose garden and rock gardens, with roses, trees and shrubs dedicated in memory of loved ones. A newer Pergola Walk incorporates the site’s existing slate memorial tablets alongside new memorial designs. There is also a separate Woodland Memorial Garden, densely planted with native trees, hollies, dog roses and ferns around a small stream and rock pool, with a wooden pavilion for shelter.

Families can choose to take cremated remains away, have them interred in a cremated remains plot in the cemetery (with an approved stone memorial afterwards), or scattered in the Garden of Remembrance. Any instruction on final resting place must be authorised by whoever signs the cremation paperwork.

Source: Sutton Road Cemetery and Southend Crematorium – council directory listing.

Contact

Address: Sutton Road, Southend-on-Sea, SS2 5PX Phone: 01702 603 908 / 01702 215015 Email: BereavementServices@southend.gov.uk

About this crematorium

Southend Crematorium opened in 1953 and is council-run rather than privately operated. Families who want a simple send-off without a full memorial service have two lower-cost routes: the committal-only option with mourners present (£880), or a fully unattended direct cremation (£325) with the ashes returned or scattered afterwards.