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Cemeteries

The Christchurch City Council provides and administers 27 cemeteries, 22 operating cemeteries and five closed cemeteries in Christchurch and Banks Peninsula.

Apply for burial or interment

Applications need to be received with no fewer than one working day's notice (Monday to Friday) for Christchurch City cemeteries and no fewer than two working days' notice for Banks Peninsula cemeteries.

Apply

For general enquiries, please contact us online(external link), call 03 941 8646 or email cemeteries@ccc.govt.nz.

Pay a cemetery bill by credit card

Cemetery records – Find a grave

Purchasing a plot

Casket and ash burials/interments

Operational cemeteries

Cemetery fees

Headstones and monuments

Map of Christchurch cemeteries

Historic cemeteries

Cemeteries Handbook

Opening hours and access