Criteria for selection

The Register will include funerary memorials located in a cemetery/ burial ground not necessarily containing body/ies within the grave and for which there is concern about its declining condition.

The graves selected should have at least one of the following conditions:

[1] The deceased person [or family] was of national or local importance with known biographical detail or associated with such a personage or historical event. A grave not within this category may however be eligible for reasons that follow.

[2] The memorial features architectural merit in its design or style [including its size] or of its inscription or unusual design reflecting the skills of the stonemason or sculptor, possibly of unusual graining [e.g. marble] or of a stone no longer commercially available.

[3] That it was erected by public subscription, by an employer or by the family etc to commemorate a feature of social history such as a riot, a train accident, a shipwreck, a death by accident or a named disease, an inventor or founder of a business, a person prominent in professional or artistic skills or a trade.

[4] That the grave has an association with a regiment, a ship or flight of the armed forces, or a war or battle or a disaster such as a mining accident, a shipwreck, a fire or similar event.

[5] A [local or national] building, institution, business was founded by or had connections with the deceased.

[6] The grave is the work of a well known stonemason or sculptor and a fitting example of the skills involved or was a 'one off' design rather than being selected from a funerary catalogue.

[7] The grave is listed as grade II or grade II* [grade B in Scotland] and is in need of repair

The application should be accompanied by photographs or drawings and the applicant understands and agrees to the publishing of such material on this website.

Register Administrator John Avery  CLICK HERE

The NFCF Graves at Risk Register operates under the guidance of the Funerary Monuments Group of the NFCF.