Coffins, Urns & Tributes

Most families arrive with no idea what the choices are, which is entirely normal — it isn't something anyone has thought about before. This page is here so you can look at them quietly, at home, before you sit down with us.

Everything on this page can be seen in person when you come in, and everything we charge for it is published on our prices page.

Coffins

Coffins and caskets

From traditional veneered coffins to solid timber, wicker and willow, and coffins that can be painted or personalised. What matters is that it suits the person, not that it's the most expensive one on the page.

Cardboard
Pastel
Sault York
Sault Lincoln
Sault Hardwick
Pine
Turners waxed oak
Willow
Cane, loom and seagrass
Bamboo, bullrush and banana leaf
Daisy water hyacinth
Bradnam Joinery
Picture coffins
Light and dark wood veneered
Larger coffins
Solid coffins and caskets
American caskets
Coffin crosses

Our brochure shows every coffin and casket we offer, with prices, and you are welcome to look through it at home before you come in.

Our coffin brochure PDF

Coffin prices

Ashes

Urns, caskets and scatter tubes

After a cremation, the ashes can be kept, buried, scattered, or divided between family members — and there is no time limit on deciding. An urn or casket is for keeping or interring; a scatter tube is designed to make scattering straightforward and dignified, often somewhere that mattered.

Urns, caskets and keepsakes

The Adelphi — a light oak ashes casket
A hexagonal casket in light oak
A hexagonal casket in a darker wood
A woven willow casket
A casket with a field of poppies across the lid
A casket in deep red, scattered with stars
Painted and engraved to order — this one for a fisherman
A pair of navy urns with gold and white stars
A small pearlised metal keepsake urn
A scallop shell in brushed pewter
A dolphin on a carved wooden base
A carved turtle
A pair of small carved turtle keepsakes
A model Viking longship
Five of the scatter tube designs together

Scatter tubes

A scatter tube has a lid designed to come away cleanly, so scattering doesn't become a struggle at the moment you least want one. They are biodegradable, and most families choose a design that means something.

Summer, autumn and spring together
Bluebell woodland
A summer sunset
Autumn woodland
Autumn trees in pink and violet
Woodland at sunset
A hayfield at sunset
Pink lilies
Red roses on cream
A butterfly in pink
Shaded from violet to grey
An aeroplane against a pink sky
A racing car
Printed with weathered wood
A plain tube in sage green
A plain tube in charcoal
A plain tube in burgundy
A biodegradable urn in mottled burgundy
A biodegradable pillow urn, for water burial
A memory bear, with the ashes held inside

A selection of what we keep in branch, photographed here rather than taken from a supplier's catalogue. There are a good many more designs than these — the brochure has all of them.

Our urns and scatter tubes brochure PDF

If you're not sure what you'd like to do with the ashes, say so. Many families take months to decide, and we'll keep them safely in the meantime. We hold ashes for five years, free of charge, and there is no hurry at all: most families take months to decide, and that is fine. If we have not heard from you in that time we will try to reach you at least nine times and keep a record of each attempt, and only if we have had no reply would the ashes be scattered at the crematorium once the five years are up. In practice that almost never happens. If you need longer, just tell us.

About direct cremation

Flowers

The Salisbury Flower Shed

Funeral flowers for the families we look after come from Sue Ford at the Salisbury Flower Shed, at Old Sarum. Every tribute is made individually — coffin sprays, letters, and the shapes that tell you exactly who someone was.

There's no obligation to use her. If you'd rather arrange your own, or a family member wants to do the flowers, that's absolutely fine and we'll work around it.

59G Old Sarum Business Park, Salisbury SP4 6DZ
01722 701041 · thesalisburyflowershed.co.uk

A coffin spray in soft pinks and lilacs — dahlias, roses, snapdragons and scabious, loosely gathered — A coffin spray in soft pinks and lilacs

A coffin spray of reds, blues and pinks with anemones and delphiniums, like a summer garden — A coffin spray of reds

MUM spelt out in white chrysanthemums, threaded through with daisies — MUM spelt out in white chrysanthemums

DAD spelt out in white chrysanthemums, dressed with yellow roses and cornflower blue — DAD spelt out in white chrysanthemums

A motorcycle made entirely of flowers — black chrysanthemum wheels, a red tank and a white body — A motorcycle made entirely of flowers

An anchor of white chrysanthemums, topped with yellow roses — An anchor of white chrysanthemums

Memorials

Spire Memorials

For headstones and memorials we recommend Spire Memorials — a family firm of memorial masons in Salisbury with three decades' experience, and members of NAMM, the National Association of Memorial Masons. Consultations are free, and their showroom can be visited by appointment.

There is no hurry with a memorial. Most families come to it months after the funeral, and many burial grounds ask you to wait while the ground settles. We'll make the introduction whenever you're ready.

68 Wilton Road, Salisbury SP2 7ES
01722 704558 · spirememorials.co.uk

A gilded dove on emerald pearl — Emerald Pearl, catalogue reference WG28 — A gilded dove on emerald pearl · WG28, Emerald Pearl

Black granite with a gilded cross — Black Granite, catalogue reference WG41 — Black granite with a gilded cross · WG41, Black Granite

Nabresina with a carved rose panel — Nabresina, catalogue reference WG182 — Nabresina with a carved rose panel · WG182, Nabresina

Ruby red with pitched edges — Ruby Red, catalogue reference WG60 — Ruby red with pitched edges · WG60, Ruby Red

A circular headstone flanked by angels — Black Granite, catalogue reference WG81 — A circular headstone flanked by angels · WG81, Black Granite

A full-length kerb set — Ruby Red, catalogue reference WG103 — A full-length kerb set · WG103, Ruby Red

A tiered kerb set — Grey Bird, catalogue reference WG109 — A tiered kerb set · WG109, Grey Bird

An open book in black granite — Black Granite, catalogue reference WG132 — An open book in black granite · WG132, Black Granite

Entwined double hearts — Ruby Red, catalogue reference WG152 — Entwined double hearts · WG152, Ruby Red

A butterfly silhouette — Black Granite, catalogue reference WG201 — A butterfly silhouette · WG201, Black Granite

A bear holding a heart — Lunar Grey, catalogue reference WG233 — A bear holding a heart · WG233, Lunar Grey

A cremation tablet with an oval top — Ruby Red, catalogue reference WG244 — A cremation tablet with an oval top · WG244, Ruby Red

Twelve from the range Spire work with, with the catalogue reference against each so you can ask for one by name. There are a great many more designs, materials and finishes — they will show you the full range and talk you through what your churchyard or cemetery permits. Photographs used with the permission of Spire Memorials.

The stone — thirty-nine to choose from

Every design can be cut in any of these. Lettering is gilded in gold leaf, painted, or sand-blasted and left plain.