If you’ve just been bereaved, your first point of contact will normally be a local funeral director. 

If you’d like the vicar from St Barnabas Church to be involved in the funeral, or if you’d like to hold the funeral at St Barnabas Church, please ask the funeral director to contact us before the date is fixed so we can ensure that we are available.   We also take funerals at local crematoriums and cemeteries, or a funeral at the church can be followed by a short service of committal at a cemetery or crematorium.  Once the funeral is booked, the vicar will arrange to come and meet the next of kin to talk about the arrangements and the kind of service you would like.

Anyone who lived, or died, in the parish is welcome to have their funeral here.

The funeral is a time to acknowledge your sense of grief and sorrow, but within us, we may continue to carry that sense of grief and sorrow caused by the love we had for the person who died.     After the funeral, we are available in the weeks and months to come. If this would be of help to you or if we can offer support in any other way, please let us know.  You can also talk to us about a Memorial Service for the life of a loved one, which can take place after a funeral, whether or not we have been involved. 

To read more about funerals in general, visit the Church of England website.

The statutory fees are published annually by the Church of England; we can discuss anything else you would like to add e.g. an organist.