Burial sites for in-ground burials are available for immediate use only as the cemetery approaches full capacity. Pre-need sites are currently not available. A range of cremation memorials are available for both pre-need and at-need.
Contact Cemetery Admin for more information.
Mona Vale Cemetery provides a beautiful setting for both in-ground burials and cremation memorials in a peaceful environment with landscaped gardens.
Interment Rights - To obtain a burial site or cremation memorial an "interment right" must be purchased. An interment right is a contract with a cemetery operator that allows interment to take place in a particular location in a cemetery. The right is ‘purchased’ and the holder of the interment right is the only person able to choose who can be interred at the site. The holder controls any memorials or monuments on the site an is also responsible for maintenance.
Timeframe - Interment rights at Mona Vale Cemetery are issued in perpetuity. This means there is no limit to the time you own the right. The right becomes part of your Estate when you pass away. Your executors must notify Council to whom the right should be transferred to.
To purchase an interment right, contact Cemetery Administration.
If you are organising a funeral, your funeral director will coordinate the funeral arrangements including the burial arrangements at the Cemetery. If you do not have a burial site, an available site will be allocated in the appropriate available area.
Cemeteries and Crematoria NSW Interment rights fact sheet provides more information.
Burial sites
The cemetery is divided into Catholic, Anglican, Serbian Orthodox, General/Non-Sectarian as well as Uniting Church, Bahai, Baptist and Latter Day Saints denominations. However there is limited or no availability in some areas including Bahai and Uniting.
There are two burial site options -
Full monumental allowing monuments of your choice (subject to Council approval) to be built to honour your family member.
Headstone lawn with a pre-installed granite headstone.
All burial sites generally have capacity for two in- coffin burials and up to 6 ashes containers. Burial sites at Mona Vale are of size 2.44m x 1.065m.
Headstone lawn The interment rights purchase includes a granite headstone. There is space for two standard inscription plaques 381mm x 216mm on the headstone. Interment (burial) fees and inscriptions are not included.
Full monumental -The interment right purchase includes a grass covered burial site. Interment (burial) fees and monumental work/inscriptions are not included.
Cremation Memorials
There are several options for cremation ash memorialisation at Mona Vale Cemetery including the traditional columbarium wall or memorial garden. A cast bronze plaque is prepared and mounted on the wall or on a single or double plinth in the gardens. A memorial panel for people whose ash remains have been scattered is also available. Sites for memorialisation have no religious affiliation.
Remembrance Process Australia offers useful information to help you through the process.
Garden Memorials - Gum Tree Grove Standard
Polished single or double granite memorial with bronze plaque 185mm x 185mm in a garden setting.
Gum Tree Grove - Garden Estate
Sloped polished granite memorial for two people with 185mm x 185mm bronze plaque in a natural garden setting.
Cylinder Memorial
Decorative creative cut aluminium for one person with circular bronze memorial plaque. The memorials are arranged in sets of two to enable purchase for couples. Limited availability of 6 memorials in Garden F.
Family Rock
Family Rock Memorial sites are generally a solid piece of basalt or sandstone, located in one of the memorial or border gardens, subject to Council approval. .
Small rock memorials accommodate up to two ashes placements.
Each rock includes a family name plate or crest mounted on the top of the stone.
Bedrock Memorial
A faux or replica shaped stoned made from coloured concrete with capacity for 2 ashes containers placed inside. A cast bronze plaque covers the opening. Placed in cemetery Garden D subject to Council approval - limited availability.
Pittwater Memorial Wall - Panel & Niches
The Pittwater Memorial Wall is a solid granite wall with many niches for the placement of ashes as well as panels for commemoration without ashes.
Local artists, Roberta Landers and Alyson Bell were commissioned to create a series of decorative bronze panels for the wall depicting scenes from the Pittwater area and of our native flora and fauna.
SO Reynolds Memorial Wall
The S.O. Reynolds Memorial Wall started in 1974 and was named after Mr Sydney Owen Reynolds a former Councillor of Warringah. Only a few panels remain available for sale.