There are three options.
(1) Garden Beds
These are standard sized individual plots near a garden bed.
Memorialization is subject to regulated size plaque (with or without vase). Plaques can be purchased through the cemetery and include permit fees and instalment costs.
| Right of Interment (site only) | 25 year tenure $375.00 Perpetual tenure $625.00 |
| Interment of Cremated Remains | $260.00 |
(2) Grave
Ashes can be interred in graves. Subject to the approval of the Holder of the Right of Interment, each grave can accommodate up to
2 burials and 4 ashes
OR 1 burial and 5 ashes
OR 6 ashes
| Right of Interment (site only) | $1,125.00 | |
| Interment of Cremated Remains Perpetual Tenure |
$260.00 |
Memorialization in Ben Cairn Lawn is subject to a regulation size plaque. Plaques can be purchased through the cemetery and include permit fees and installation costs.
(3) Scattered Ashes Garden
Ashes scattered in the cemetery or another place can be memorialized in this area. Plaques can be purchased through the cemetery.
A plaque installation fee applies in this area. P.O.A
Updated July 2013
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Garden bed
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In grave
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Scattered
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Other options are available. Contact the Secretary to discuss your requirements.
Standards and specifications apply. Please contact the Secretary on 59672572 to discuss your requirements or click here to view standards and specifications.
Upper Yarra Public Cemetery Trust Regulations
Persons maintaining graves – your attention is drawn to the following:
1. Memorials and places of interment
- A cemetery trust may give directions to a person regarding the dressing of places of interment and memorials in the cemetery.
- A person must comply with any direction given by a cemetery trust.
2. Approval for certain mementos - a person must not without the approval of a cemetery trust, place the following items on a memorial or place of interment:
- Ceramic or glass items that are fragile or breakable
- Metal items that are likely to rust or deteriorate
3. Items likely to cause harm – a person must not place any item likely to cause a risk to health or safety on a memorial or place of interment.
4. Power to remove objects – a cemetery trust may remove any of the following items from a memorial or place of interment in a cemetery for which it is responsible:
- any object that extends beyond the boundary of the memorial or place of interment
- any dead flowers or any other item that is in a poor condition
- any object placed on a memorial or place of interment in contravention of the Act, the regulations or these rules
5. A cemetery trust must ensure anything removed is disposed of in a manner considered appropriate by the cemetery trust.
The Upper Yarra Cemetery Trust hereby directs that:
Ben Cairn Lawn
The only form of memorial permitted in the Ben Cairn Lawn is a bronze plaque 560mm wide and 305mm long, fixed to a raised concrete block. The concrete block is supplied and installed by the Cemetery Trust.
Morton Thomas Lawn
The only form of memorial permitted in the Morton Thomas Lawn is a bronze plaque 380mm wide and 280mm long or a double plaque 560mm wide and 305mm long. The bronze plaque is fixed to a concrete block set flush with the surface of the lawn. The concrete block is supplied and installed by the Cemetery Trust.
Memorial Garden
The only form of memorial permitted in the Memorial Garden is a bronze plaque 380mm wide and 280mm long fitted to a concrete block set flush with the surface of the garden. The concrete block is supplied and installed by the Cemetery Trust.
Ashes Garden
The only form of memorial permitted in the Ashes Garden is a bronze plaque 229mm wide and 280mm long fitted to a concrete block set flush with the surface of the garden. The concrete block is supplied and installed by the Cemetery Trust.
Scattered Ashes Section
The only memorial permitted in the Scattered Ashes Section is a bronze plaque no larger than 380mm wide and 280mm long fixed to a concrete block and set flush with the ground. The concrete block is supplied and installed by the Cemetery Trust.
Issued by the Upper Yarra Public Cemetery Trust, 2011
Adjacent to the shelter is a memorial garden. This garden is dedicated to the memory of those buried in this cemetery whose grave site cannot be identified.
Memorialization in this area is subject to a regulated size plaque. Plaques purchased through the cemetery include permit fees and installation costs.