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 in St Barnabas church, please ask the funeral director to contact us before the date is fixed so we can make sure that someone is available. 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 could be of help to you or if we can offer support in any other way, please let us know.

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