Costs Parochial fee for a funeral service in a parish church in the Church of England or in a crematorium: £178 Pianist: £120 Verger: £50 Please note that all fees increase annually All fees should be paid to the funeral director

More info Planning a funeral churchofenglandfunerals.org/ The Church of England’s funeral planning website Find a funeral director National Association of Funeral Directors www.nafd.org.uk The funeral director local to St Luke’s is A Yeatman & Sons Funeral Directors ayeatmanfunerals.co.uk 020 8670 1127 (24 hours) Finding your parish church in the Church of England www.achurchnearyou.com Flowers: Beverley Wilson www.beverleywilsonflorals.co.uk You are not obliged to use Beverley for flowers but she is a keyholder which makes access to the church easier

Contact details St Luke’s Church Knights Hill West Norwood London SE27 0HS 020 8761 0068 www.stlukeswestnorwood.org stlukeswestnorwood@gmail.com Getting to St Luke’s Plan a journey at tfl.gov.uk/plan-a-journey Train to West Norwood Station Buses: 2 68 196 315 432 468 690 N2 N68 X68 Accessibility for wheelchair users Level access from West Norwood Station Parking in St Luke’s Churchyard (phone ahead to reserve a space if possible) Ramp access to main church building Level access to bathroom

Funerals at St Luke’s

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You are welcome at St Luke’s

A funeral is used to mark the end of a

person's life here on earth. Family and friends

come together to express grief, give thanks for

the life lived and commend the person into God's

keeping. It can be a small, quiet ceremony or a

large occasion in a packed church.

Everyone is entitled to a funeral service led by

their local parish priest regardless of whether

they attended church or not. The service can

be held in the St Luke’s Church or at a

crematorium or cemetery.

After the initial news of the death of someone you

knew and loved, there are some important things

that need to be done. These are two of the more

immediate things:

1. Register the death. There is some

helpful guidance on this on the

government’s births, marriages, and deaths

advice page.

2. Meet a funeral director. Details are

included on the back of this leaflet. The funeral

director will talk to you about what kind of

funeral you would like and make all of the

necessary arrangements, including booking

the minister and the church, if required.

One of the first questions the funeral director will

ask is whether you would like a burial or a

cremation. You might like to discuss this with

other family members if you’re not sure what the

preference was of the person who died. You’ll

then be asked where you would like the service to

be held.

The Funeral Director will ask about various

details, including:

Whether the funeral should be civil, humanist

or religious. Remember you don’t have to be

religious or a churchgoer to have a Church of

England funeral—it is open to all.

Whether there is a particular minister you have

in mind to take the funeral.

What sort of coffin you would like.

How you would like the coffin to be

transported to the service.

Whether you would like flowers.

They might ask whether you have any

thoughts on music or other special ideas to

reflect the life of the person you knew. The

person who leads the service will talk to you

more about this.

Wherever the funeral is taking place, a Church of

England minister can lead it. Whether you already

know the vicar or whether you would like to make

contact with a person where your loved one lived.

The funeral director will book the minister for the

service and they will book the church if the

funeral is to be held there. They will advise you of

all the costs of the funeral—not just the ones that

are paid to the church, which are detailed over

the page.

If our vicar, Revd Donald Davis is appointed to

lead the funeral service he will arrange to meet

with you at home or at St Luke’s, to listen to the

story of the person you knew. He will also go

through all the details of the funeral service itself.

The funeral service usually contains the following

elements:

Arrival of the coffin

Welcome & introduction

Readings and sermon

Commendation, farewell and committal

Revd Donald will help you choose hymns and

music. You will then need to pass these on to

your funeral director who will make arrangements

for musicians and recorded music, as well as

ensuring song words are included in the printed

order of service that will be handed out to

mourners at the beginning of the funeral.

Please note that St Luke’s Church hosts a

foodbank on Tuesdays and Fridays between

9am and 3pm so is not available for funeral

services at those times.