East Lancashire Crematorium

Cemetery Road, Radcliffe, Manchester, Lancashire, M26 4EU - Tel: 0161 724 6349

East Lancashire Crematorium brings to fruition a long held ambition of the Bury Metropolitan Council to bring to an end the previous necessity for long journeys that families were forced to endure to other crematoria across the Lancashire area. This new and tasteful facility provides excellent, comfortable, clean, welcoming and modern facilities which are situated in an open and beautifully peaceful area overlooking Bury and beyond to the Pennines and the Peel Memorial.

Chapel

The building has been designed to incorporate all the important criteria necessary to allow families to commemorate their departed in a reverent and peaceful setting undisturbed by the hectic demands of modern life.
Dedicated in June 2007 by the Bishop of Bolton this facility sets new standards of client care and is already being widely used across Lancashire and the north of Manchester.

Service times are 45 minutes and thus allow families time to gather and leave without the pressure of other funerals waiting for access. Longer ‘celebration’ services and private memorial services can also be arranged upon request.

Gardens

The staff are available at all times to advise bereaved families regarding the crematorium’s service facilities and memorial products and would be pleased to discuss any individual queries or requests. They are highly trained and dedicated to carrying out the company’s mission statement which requires that everything possible is done to support clients through an obviously sad and traumatic time.

The public areas are furnished to the highest standard and have the feel of serene comfort as one enters the foyer. This is heightened by the use of colours, mainly blues and lemons, which produce an appropriate effect when combined with the solid English oak doors and beech chapel furnishings.

Facilities exist for live organ music, tapes or CDs. There is also a hearing loop and a public address system. Through the picture windows in the chapel can be seen the green hillsides that surround the town of Bury and thus add appropriately to the pastoral setting.

The whole ethos of East Lancashire Crematorium is geared to caring and meeting the needs of the bereaved. The staff are dedicated to working with funeral directors to ensure that the precise wishes of families are met in the most dignified manner.

The crematorium is open for inspection at any time by members of the public and holds two services of remembrance a year and an annual Open Day when all those questions about cremation that people want to ask can be fully explained.

It is fair to say that East Lancashire Crematorium brings a new standard and dimension to funerals in this part of Lancashire and, as the 250th crematorium to be opened in the United Kingdom, it is undoubtedly one of the finest.

The facility is specifically designed to serve Bury and the wider area known as Northern Greater Manchester. However, it also serves a much bigger area given that it has a larger cremator size provision than other crematoria and therefore can accommodate larger sized coffins which have previously been denied the option of cremation.

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